9-letter words containing f, i, r, l
- frizzling — Present participle of frizzle.
- frog lily — a yellow water lily.
- froglings — Plural form of frogling.
- frolicked — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- frolicker — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- from life — from a living model
- 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.
- fuel rail — A fuel rail is high pressure tubing which takes fuel to the injectors in an internal combustion engine.
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- fulfiller — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
- fulgurite — a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning.
- fulleride — a compound of a fullerene in which atoms are trapped inside the cage of carbon atoms
- fullering — a half-round hammer used for grooving and spreading iron.
- fullerite — a crystalline form of a fullerene
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- funicular — of or relating to a rope or cord, or its tension.
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- fusiliers — Plural form of fusilier.
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- gillflirt — a flirtatious woman
- glorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- glorifier — Agent noun of glorify; one who glorifies.
- glorifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glorify.
- guildford — a city in S England, in Surrey: cathedral (1936–68); seat of the University of Surrey (1966). Pop: 69 400 (2001)
- hail from — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- highflier — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- hill farm — a farm in a high area, usually concentrating on sheep, because of the lack of winter fodder
- hold fire — If you hold fire in a situation, you delay before taking action.
- hydrofoil — Naval Architecture. a surface form creating a thrust against water in a direction perpendicular to the plane approximated by the surface.
- in flower — When a plant is in flower or when it has come into flower, its flowers have appeared and opened.
- in relief — carved or molded so as to project from a surface
- inferable — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- infertile — not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.
- infielder — any of the four defensive players stationed around the infield.
- inflicter — One who inflicts.
- inflictor — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- interfile — to combine two or more similarly arranged sets of items, as cards or documents, into a single file.
- interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.