9-letter words containing f, a, l, s
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- fishtails — Plural form of fishtail.
- fissional — Of or pertaining to fission.
- fistulate — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- flabagast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flag seat — a seat woven from reeds, rushes, or iris leaves.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flag stop — a bus stop at which a bus only stops if there is someone waiting or if someone wants to get off the bus
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flagpoles — Plural form of flagpole.
- flagships — Plural form of flagship.
- flagstaff — flagpole.
- flagstick — pin (def 13).
- flagstone — Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.
- flak ship — a ship heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons, used to protect other vessels from air attack
- flak suit — a suit of two or more padded armored garments designed to protect the body from shrapnel.
- flakiness — of or like flakes.
- flamefish — a cardinalfish, Apogon maculatus, of Atlantic coastal waters from Florida to Brazil.
- flameless — That does not emit flames.
- flamencos — Plural form of flamenco.
- flameouts — Plural form of flameout.
- flamingos — Plural form of flamingo.
- flaminius — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), died 217 b.c, Roman statesman and general who was defeated by Hannibal.
- flamsteed — John, 1646–1719, English astronomer.
- flapjacks — Plural form of flapjack; pancakes.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- flash rom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash set — undesirably rapid setting of cement in concrete
- flash-fry — to fry something very quickly by placing it in a pan on a very high heat
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcard — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flashiest — Superlative form of flash.
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- flashness — Quality of being flash.
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flat sour — fermentation occurring in canned foods after sealing.
- flat spin — an aircraft spin in which the longitudinal axis is more nearly horizontal than vertical
- flat spot — a region of poor acceleration over a narrow range of throttle openings, caused by a weak mixture in the carburettor
- flatboats — Plural form of flatboat.
- flatfoots — Plural form of flatfoot.
- flatheads — Plural form of flathead.
- flatirons — Plural form of flatiron.
- flatlands — A terrain that varies little in elevation.
- flatlines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flatline.