8-letter words containing f, l, a, b
- fan belt — (in automotive vehicles) a belt, driven by the crankshaft of an engine, that turns a fan for drawing cooling air through the radiator.
- fan club — a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team.
- farmable — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- fastball — a pitch thrown at or near a pitcher's maximum velocity.
- fat lamb — a lamb bred for its tender meat, esp for export trade
- feasible — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feasibly — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feedable — to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
- feel bad — feel guilty
- feel-bad — causing or characterized by feelings of unhappiness or depression
- fellable — capable of being or fit to be felled.
- fibrilla — a fibril.
- fileable — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- fillable — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- filmable — noting or pertaining to a story or to a literary work readily adaptable to motion picture form.
- fimbrial — Of or pertaining to the fimbriae.
- findable — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fineable — subject to a fine; punishable by a fine.
- fireable — Alternative form of firable.
- fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
- fishable — that may be fished in: nonpolluted, fishable streams.
- fishball — A Chinese food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball.
- fittable — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- flabbier — Comparative form of flabby.
- flabbily — In a flabby manner.
- flabella — a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
- flambeau — a flaming torch.
- flambeed — Also, flambéed [flahm-beyd] /flɑmˈbeɪd/ (Show IPA). (of food) served in flaming liquor, especially brandy: steak flambé.
- flashmob — Alternative spelling of flash mob.
- flat bug — any of numerous flattened bugs of the family Aradidae, inhabiting the underside of bark and feeding on fungi.
- flatback — a short name for the flatback turtle, Natator depressa, which is native to Australasia and characterized by the flatness of its back
- flatbeds — Plural form of flatbed.
- flatboat — a large, flat-bottomed boat for use in shallow water, especially on rivers.
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- fleabags — Plural form of fleabag.
- fleabane — any of various composite plants, as Pulicaria dysenterica, of Europe, or Erigeron philadelphicus, of the U.S., reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
- fleabite — the bite of a flea.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- fly ball — a ball that is batted up into the air.
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- foamable — Capable of being converted into foam.
- foilable — to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk: Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government.
- foldable — to bend (cloth, paper, etc.) over upon itself.
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- foldboat — faltboat.
- foosball — A tabletop version of soccer in which players turn rods fixed on top of a playing box and attached to miniature figures of players, in order to flick the ball and strike it toward the goal.
- football — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- fordable — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- forkball — a pitch thrown with the ball inserted between the index and middle fingers, causing it to dip sharply near home plate.