6-letter words containing a, l
- fleadh — a festival of Irish music, dancing, and culture
- fleams — Plural form of fleam.
- floats — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
- floaty — able to float; buoyant.
- florae — the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
- floral — pertaining to or consisting of flowers: floral decoration.
- floras — Plural form of flora.
- fluate — a former name for fluoride
- fly at — If you fly at someone, you attack them, either physically by hitting them, or with words by insulting them.
- flyman — a stagehand, especially one who operates the apparatus in the flies.
- flyway — a route between breeding and wintering areas taken by concentrations of migrating birds.
- foaled — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- foetal — of, relating to, or having the character of a fetus.
- folate — folic acid.
- foliar — of, relating to, or having the nature of a leaf or leaves.
- fontal — pertaining to or coming from a fountain or spring.
- formal — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- foveal — Of or pertaining to the fovea.
- fraile — Obsolete spelling of frail.
- frails — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
- frakel — (obsolete) Fraked.
- frazil — ice crystals formed in turbulent water, as in swift streams or rough seas.
- frugal — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fulani — Also, Fulah. a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of mixed African and Mediterranean ancestry, scattered through W Africa from Senegal to Cameroon.
- fulcra — the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
- fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- fullam — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- fulmar — any of certain oceanic birds of the petrel family, especially Fulmarus glacialis, a gull-like Arctic species.
- fungal — fungous.
- fusula — (in the spinneret of a spider) the terminal tube of a silk gland.
- futsal — a form of association football, played indoors with five players on each side
- gabble — to speak or converse rapidly and unintelligibly; jabber.
- gabels — Plural form of gabel.
- gabled — provided with a gable or gables: a gabled house.
- gables — Plural form of gable.
- gablet — a small gable
- gadfly — any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.
- gaelic — a Celtic language that includes the speech of ancient Ireland and the dialects that have developed from it, especially those usually known as Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic constitutes the Goidelic subbranch of Celtic.
- gaffle — to take hold of; seize.
- gaggle — to cackle.
- gailer — Obsolete form of jailer.
- gainly — graceful; comely; handsome.
- galago — bush baby.
- galahs — Plural form of galah.
- galant — Of, relating to, or denoting a light and elegant style of 18th -century music.
- galata — the chief commercial section of Istanbul, Turkey.
- galati — a port in E Romania, on the Danube River. 252,884.
- galaxy — Astronomy. a large system of stars held together by mutual gravitation and isolated from similar systems by vast regions of space. (usually initial capital letter) Milky Way.
- galcha — a member of an Iranian people inhabiting the Pamirs.
- galeae — Irregular plural form of galea.