9-letter words containing f, l, i, e
- filtrable — filterable.
- filtrated — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
- filtrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of filtrate.
- fin whale — finback.
- finalised — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- finalises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finalise.
- finalized — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- finalizer — (computing) In some programming languages, a function that runs when an object is garbage collected, similar to a destructor.
- finalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finalize.
- fine gael — one of the major political parties in the Republic of Ireland, formed in 1933
- fine nail — a short steel finishing nail from 1 to 1½ inches (2.5 to 3.8 cm) long.
- finlander — an inhabitant of Finland, especially a native who customarily speaks Swedish.
- finletter — Thomas Knight, 1893–1980, U.S. lawyer and diplomat.
- fire clay — a refractory clay used for making crucibles, firebricks, etc.
- fire line — firebreak.
- fire opal — a red Mexican opal, often with a color play.
- fire sale — a special sale of merchandise actually or supposedly damaged by fire.
- fire wall — a fireproof wall to prevent the spread of fire, as from one room or compartment to the next
- fire-plow — a stick that is rubbed in a wooden groove to produce sparks for igniting a fire.
- fireballs — Plural form of fireball.
- fireblast — A fiery explosion.
- fireflies — Plural form of firefly.
- firefloat — a boat used for firefighting
- fireflood — a procedure designed to extract more oil from a well by injecting compressed air into the ground and burning some of the oil to increase the flow.
- firelight — the light from a fire, as on a hearth.
- firelocks — Plural form of firelock.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- firewalls — Plural form of firewall.
- firn line — the zone of a glacier between the lower region of solid ice and the upper region of névé, above which ablation occurs
- fish glue — a type of glue made by prolonged boiling of the connective tissue of fish
- fish line — a line, usually with a hook at one end, used in fishing
- fish meal — dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.
- fish pole — fishing pole.
- fish-pole — a long tapered flexible pole, often in jointed sections, for use with a fishing line and, usually, a reel
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- fistulate — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- fistulize — Pathology. to form a fistula.
- fistulose — Formed like a fistula; hollow; reed-like.
- five hole — the opening between a goaltender's parted legs.
- fixed oil — a natural vegetable or animal oil that is nonvolatile, as lard oil, linseed oil, etc.
- flagellin — the structural protein of bacterial flagella
- flagitate — to importune (someone), to demand of or entreat (someone) with passion and earnestness
- flakelike — Resembling or characteristic of a flake.
- flakiness — of or like flakes.
- flamefish — a cardinalfish, Apogon maculatus, of Atlantic coastal waters from Florida to Brazil.
- flamelike — burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
- flashiest — Superlative form of flash.
- flat file — (operating system, storage) A single file containing flat ASCII representing or encoding some structure, e.g. a database, tree or network. Flat files can be processed with general purpose tools such as Perl and text editors but are less efficient than binary files if they must be parsed repeatedly by a program. Flat files are more portable between different operating systems and application programs than binary files, and are more easily transmitted in electronic mail. See also flatten, sharchive.
- flat tire — a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.