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10-letter words containing f, i, l, a, r

  • overfacile — excessively facile
  • palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
  • passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
  • patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
  • perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
  • persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
  • phialiform — having a form like that of a saucer
  • pilferable — capable of being pilfered
  • prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
  • pro-family — that favors or benefits families
  • profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • quadrifoil — Alternative form of quadrifoliate.
  • qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
  • quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
  • raduliform — rasp-like
  • rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
  • reclassify — to classify anew.
  • refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
  • refractile — refractive (def 2).
  • relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
  • riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
  • rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
  • ring false — to give the impression of being false
  • ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
  • rolf kraki — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and in accounts by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus: involved in great battles with his stepfather, Adils of Sweden.
  • royal fizz — a beverage consisting of gin, lemon juice, sugar, and an egg.
  • rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
  • saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
  • semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
  • start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
  • t-bar lift — a ski lift having an upside-down T -shaped bar against which two skiers may lean while being pulled uphill.
  • tax relief — finance: reduction
  • thalliform — resembling a thallus
  • trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
  • ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
  • ultramafic — ultrabasic.
  • unfamiliar — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
  • uplift bra — a brassiere for lifting and supporting the breasts
  • varifocals — a pair of spectacles with varifocal lenses
  • verifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
  • wall fruit — fruit grown on trees trained against a wall for the shelter and warmth it provides
  • welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
  • wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
  • world fair — an international exhibition of industrial, scientific, artistic etc achievements of different countries in the world
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