10-letter words containing f, i, r, l
- ridgefield — a town in SW Connecticut.
- rifle bird — any of several birds of paradise of Australia, having a long bill, dark plumage, and elaborate courtship displays.
- rifle butt — the end of the stock of a rifle
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- 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.
- roof light — a window built into a roof to admit light and ventilation
- root field — a field containing a given field in which every polynomial can be written as the product of linear factors.
- round file — circular file.
- 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.
- self-drive — of, for, designating, or providing a car that is rented for personal use, without a hired driver.
- self-pride — pride in one's abilities, status, possessions, etc.; self-esteem.
- self-timer — a mechanism in a camera that operates a delay between the operation of the shutter release and the opening of the shutter, enabling the photographer to be included in the photograph
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short-life — not designed to last
- silver fir — a coniferous tree, Abies alba, native to Europe, the young branches of which are covered with grayish fuzz.
- silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
- silverfish — a white or silvery goldfish, Carassius auratus.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spillproof — (of a container) designed to prevent spilling.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- stilliform — drop-shaped; globular.
- strifeless — without strife
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- 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
- thirtyfold — thirty times as many
- thriftless — without thrift; improvident; wasteful.
- tile forth — (language) A Forth interpreter in C for Unix by Mikael Patel <[email protected]>. TILE Forth comes with many Forth libraries. It conforms to the Forth83 standard and is distributed under GPL. Availalbe via FTP from a GNU archive site.
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- trisulfide — a sulfide containing three sulfur atoms.
- twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
- ugli fruit — a Jamaican citrus fruit that is a three-way cross between a grapefruit, orange, and tangerine
- ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
- ultramafic — ultrabasic.
- umbiliform — having the form of an umbilicus.
- undercliff — a low cliff created by extreme weather