8-letter words containing f, l, a, t
- flatware — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- flatwash — an area of solid colour, whether in artwork or scenery
- flatways — with the flat side, rather than the edge, foremost or in contact.
- flatwise — with the flat side, rather than the edge, foremost or in contact.
- 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.
- flaunted — to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
- flaunter — to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
- flautist — flutist.
- flax kit — a basket woven from flax fibres
- fleabite — the bite of a flea.
- fleapits — Plural form of fleapit.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- flippant — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floatant — a substance used in fly-fishing to help dry flies to float
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- flokatis — Plural form of flokati.
- flotilla — a group of small naval vessels, especially a naval unit containing two or more squadrons.
- flotsams — Plural form of flotsam.
- 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.
- fluxgate — (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
- fluxuate — Misspelling of fluctuate.
- fly swat — fly swatter.
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- fly-cast — Angling. to fish by fly casting.
- fly-past — a ceremonial flight of aircraft over a given area
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- foldboat — faltboat.
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- 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.
- folktale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
- fontanel — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- 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.
- footfall — a footstep.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- forestal — a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- forstall — Obsolete form of forestall.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- foulmart — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- foxtails — Plural form of foxtail.
- fractals — Plural form of fractal.
- fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
- frailest — Superlative form of frail.
- freetail — a free-tailed bat.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.