8-letter words containing f, a, l, i
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- defilade — protection provided by obstacles against enemy crossfire from the rear, or observation
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- effluvia — a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
- enfilade — A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.
- epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
- fabliaux — Plural form of fabliau.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fabulize — To compose or relate fables or fictions.
- facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- facemail — a computer program which uses an electronically generated face to deliver messages on screen
- facially — of the face: facial expression.
- facilely — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- facility — Often, facilities. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility. something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
- failback — failover
- failings — Plural form of failing.
- failover — A method of protecting computer systems from failure, in which standby equipment automatically takes over when the main system fails.
- failsafe — Electronics. pertaining to or noting a mechanism built into a system, as in an early warning system or a nuclear reactor, for insuring safety should the system fail to operate properly.
- failures — Plural form of failure.
- fairlead — a pulley, thimble, etc., used to guide a rope forming part of the rigging of a ship, crane, etc., in such a way as to prevent chafing.
- faisal i — 1885–1933, king of Syria 1920; king of Iraq 1921–33.
- faithful — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- falchion — a broad, short sword having a convex edge curving sharply to the point.
- faliraki — a coastal resort in SE Greece, on Rhodes. Pop: 400 (2000 est)
- faliscan — a member of an ancient people who inhabited southern Etruria.
- fallfish — a large minnow, Semotilus corporalis, of eastern North America.
- fallible — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- fallibly — In a fallible manner.
- familial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
- familiar — well-acquainted; thoroughly conversant: to be familiar with a subject.
- families — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- familism — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- familist — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- fan mail — fan letters collectively.
- fan-girl — Sometimes, fangurl. an obsessive female fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices: a web forum for Star Wars fangirls.
- fanciful — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- fanglike — Resembling a fang.
- fanlight — a window over a door or another window, especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse.
- fantails — Plural form of fantail.
- faq list — frequently asked question
- farcical — pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
- farmgirl — A girl or young woman who works on a farm.
- farolito — luminaria.
- fascicle — a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- fasciola — (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- fat tail — a tail on a probability distribution that indicates a high level of risk
- fatalism — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.