8-letter words containing f, l, a, r, i
- fluorian — (geology) containing fluorine.
- fly rail — Furniture. a horizontally swinging bracket for supporting a drop leaf.
- foresail — the lowermost sail on a foremast.
- forhaile — to distress
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- formalin — a clear, colorless, aqueous solution of 40 percent formaldehyde.
- fornical — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
- frailero — an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
- frailest — Superlative form of frail.
- frailish — reasonably frail
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- fraulein — an unmarried woman.
- freetail — a free-tailed bat.
- friulian — a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect spoken by about half a million people of the plains of extreme NE Italy.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- infernal — hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.
- inflamer — (usually, figuratively) Something that inflames.
- inflater — A pump used to inflate tires.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- jalfrezi — A style of curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis.
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- life car — a watertight container used in marine rescue operations, suspended from a hawser and hauled back and forth between a stranded or wrecked vessel and the shore.
- lifecare — the long-term care of the health and welfare of someone, esp an elderly person within a residential community
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- mufulira — a city in N central Zambia, on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- paliform — resembling a stake
- parafoil — a structure, usually made of a strong yet light fabric, having a shape similar to that of an airplane wing, and used as a kite or a parachute.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- radcliff — a city in central Kentucky.
- raffling — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- rainfall — a fall or shower of rain.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- taffrail — the upper part of the stern of a ship.
- trifocal — Optics. having three foci.
- unfairly — not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.
- unifilar — having or involving only one thread, wire, or the like.
- warfield — David, 1866–1951, U.S. actor.
- weariful — full of weariness; fatigued; exhausted.