9-letter words containing f, i, l, t
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- foot line — Printing. a line at the bottom of a page of type, especially a black line or a line containing the folio.
- foot rail — a stretcher connecting the legs of a piece of furniture, as a chair or table, upon which the feet may be rested.
- foothills — a low hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.
- footlight — Usually, footlights. Theater. the lights at the front of a stage that are nearly on a level with the feet of the performers.
- forestial — Of, like or having to do with a forest.
- forklifts — Plural form of forklift.
- formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- fort sill — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SW Oklahoma, N of Lawton; field artillery school.
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fossilist — One who is versed in the science of fossils.
- fowl mite — any of various mites parasitic in birds, usually bloodsucking and including the red fowl mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) and the northern fowl mite (Ornithonyssus sylviarum), both pests of poultry
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- frailties — Plural form of frailty.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- free list — a list or register of articles that may be brought into a country duty-free.
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- frontline — front (def 9).
- frontlist — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
- frostline — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fruit fly — any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
- fruitfull — Archaic form of fruitful.
- fruitless — useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure.
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- fulgurite — a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning.
- full tilt — at the full potential, speed, energy, forcefulness, etc.
- full-time — working or operating the customary number of hours in each day, week, or month: a full-time housekeeper; full-time production. Compare part-time.
- fullerite — a crystalline form of a fullerene
- fulminant — occurring suddenly and with great intensity or severity; fulminating.
- fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- fustilugs — a fat, gross, or frowzy person, esp a woman
- gillflirt — a flirtatious woman
- gunflints — Plural form of gunflint.
- half pint — half of a pint, equal to 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) or 16 tablespoons (0.2 liter).
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-pint — half of a pint, equal to 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) or 16 tablespoons (0.2 liter).
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hifalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.