8-letter words containing f, a, l, o
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- flavorer — One who or that which flavors.
- flavours — Plural form of flavour.
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- flaysome — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Terrifying; frightful.
- fleasome — having fleas; flea-ridden
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- flexagon — a three-dimensional figure having polygonal faces that is constructed from a folded sheet of paper in such a way that different faces are exposed when the figure is flexed along its folds.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floatant — a substance used in fly-fishing to help dry flies to float
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- flokatis — Plural form of flokati.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- floorage — floor space.
- floorman — a floor manager.
- florally — In a floral way; with flowers or something that suggests them.
- florican — any of various smaller species of bustards.
- flotilla — a group of small naval vessels, especially a naval unit containing two or more squadrons.
- flotsams — Plural form of flotsam.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- fluorian — (geology) containing fluorine.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- foamable — Capable of being converted into foam.
- foamless — Without foam.
- focalize — Focus (something), in particular.
- fog lamp — a powerful light for use in foggy conditions, usually positioned low down on the front or rear of a road vehicle
- foilable — to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk: Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government.
- foilsman — a person who fences with a foil.
- foldable — to bend (cloth, paper, etc.) over upon itself.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- foldboat — faltboat.
- folderal — Alternative spelling of folderol.
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliages — Plural form of foliage.
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- folk art — artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning.
- folkland — a former type of land tenure
- folktale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- fontanel — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- foolscap — a type of inexpensive writing paper, especially legal-size, lined, yellow sheets, bound in tablet form.
- foosball — A tabletop version of soccer in which players turn rods fixed on top of a playing box and attached to miniature figures of players, in order to flick the ball and strike it toward the goal.
- football — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footfall — a footstep.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- for real — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.