8-letter words containing f, l, a, r
- firewall — a partition made of fireproof material to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building or ship to another or to isolate an engine compartment, as on a plane, automobile, etc.
- fissural — Pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
- flabbier — Comparative form of flabby.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flagrant — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- flancard — a piece of armour covering a horse's flank
- flanders — a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the adjacent parts of N France and SW Netherlands.
- flanerie — idleness; dawdling.
- flaneurs — Plural form of flaneur.
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flappers — something broad and flat used for striking or for making a noise by striking.
- flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flare-up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- flashers — Plural form of flasher.
- flat car — a railroad car without raised sides or ends
- flatcars — Plural form of flatcar.
- flatform — A type of shoe with a flat, platform sole.
- flatiron — a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
- flatters — Plural form of flatter.
- flattery — the act of flattering.
- flatware — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- flatwork — sheets, tablecloths, etc., that are ordinarily ironed mechanically, as on a mangle, rather than by hand.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- flaunter — to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- flavorer — One who or that which flavors.
- flavours — Plural form of flavour.
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- flexural — the act of flexing or bending.
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floorage — floor space.
- floorman — a floor manager.
- florally — In a floral way; with flowers or something that suggests them.
- florican — any of various smaller species of bustards.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- fluorian — (geology) containing fluorine.
- fly rail — Furniture. a horizontally swinging bracket for supporting a drop leaf.
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flyspray — a liquid used to destroy flies and other insects, sprayed from an aerosol
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- folderal — Alternative spelling of folderol.
- folk art — artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning.