9-letter words containing f, e, l
- flappable — easily upset or confused, especially under stress.
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flash set — undesirably rapid setting of cement in concrete
- 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.
- flashiest — Superlative form of 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 feet — feet affected by a condition in which the entire sole of the foot is able to touch the ground because of flattening of the instep arch
- flat file — (operating system, storage) A single file containing flat ASCII representing or encoding some structure, e.g. a database, tree or network. Flat files can be processed with general purpose tools such as Perl and text editors but are less efficient than binary files if they must be parsed repeatedly by a program. Flat files are more portable between different operating systems and application programs than binary files, and are more easily transmitted in electronic mail. See also flatten, sharchive.
- flat head — a flat screw head.
- flat race — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- flat rate — single, fixed fee
- flat tire — a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.
- flat-file — noting or pertaining to a database system in which each database consists of a single file not linked to any other file.
- flatbread — Also, flatbrod [flat-brohd] /ˈflæt broʊd/ (Show IPA). a thin, waferlike bread, usually rye, baked especially in Scandinavian countries.
- flatheads — Plural form of flathead.
- flatlined — Simple past tense and past participle of flatline.
- flatliner — (rare) A patient with no heartbeat.
- flatlines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flatline.
- flatmates — Plural form of flatmate.
- flattened — Made flat by something.
- flattener — to make flat.
- flatter's — a person or thing that makes something flat.
- flattered — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
- flatterer — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
- flatulate — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
- flatulent — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- flatwares — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- flaughter — a fluttering
- flauntier — Comparative form of flaunty.
- flavanone — a chemical compound, C15H12O2, derived from flavone
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flavourer — One who or that which flavours.
- flaxseeds — Plural form of flaxseed.
- fleabites — Plural form of fleabite.
- flechette — Military. a small, dartlike metal projectile used as shrapnel in antipersonnel bombs and shells.
- fleckless — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- fledgling — a young bird just fledged.
- fleet car — A car that is bought as one of a number owned and operated by a particular company, e.g. as company cars
- fleetness — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- fleetwood — a fishing port in NW England, in Lancashire. Pop: 26 841 (2001)
- flenching — Present participle of flench.
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- flerovium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Fl; atomic number: 114.
- flesh fly — any fly of the family Sarcophagidae, comprising species that deposit their eggs or larvae in carrion or in the flesh of living animals.
- flesh out — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- fleshhood — the state of being in the flesh or having flesh (as opposed to being purely spiritual)
- fleshhook — a hook for use in lifting meat, as from a pot.
- fleshiest — Superlative form of fleshy.