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9-letter words containing f, l, o

  • flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
  • flyrodder — an angler using an artificial fly
  • fo'c's'le — forecastle.
  • foamingly — in a foaming manner
  • focalized — Simple past tense and past participle of focalize.
  • focalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of focalize.
  • focusable — Capable of being focused.
  • focusless — Lacking focus.
  • foetology — fetology.
  • fog level — the density produced by the development of photographic materials that have not been exposed to light or other actinic radiation. It forms part of the characteristic curve of a particular material
  • fog light — an automobile headlight throwing light of a color intended to diminish the effect of fog, dust, etc., in the air.
  • foilborne — (of a vessel) moving on the water on hydrofoils, with the hull out of the water.
  • foiningly — by means of a thrust or push
  • fold case — case sensitivity
  • fold limb — either of the sides of a geological fold
  • fold-down — designed to be folded out for use and collapsed when not in use: a fold-down tray on the back of an airplane seat; a fold-down trailer for camping.
  • foldboats — Plural form of foldboat.
  • folderols — Plural form of folderol.
  • foliation — the act or process of putting forth leaves.
  • foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
  • foliolate — pertaining to or consisting of leaflets (often used in combination, as bifoliolate).
  • foliolose — with leaves composed of folioles
  • folk hero — a hero to the common people of a country
  • folk mass — a liturgical mass in which traditional music is replaced by folk music.
  • folk rock — a style of music combining characteristics of rock-'n'-roll and folk music, often exemplified by protest songs to a rock-'n'-roll beat, and at its height of popularity in the late 1960s.
  • folk song — a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and stanzaic, narrative verse.
  • folk tale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
  • folk-rock — a style of music combining characteristics of rock-'n'-roll and folk music, often exemplified by protest songs to a rock-'n'-roll beat, and at its height of popularity in the late 1960s.
  • folk-sing — an informal gathering for the singing of folk songs.
  • folketing — the unicameral parliament of Denmark.
  • folkishly — In a folkish manner.
  • folklores — Plural form of folklore.
  • folkloric — based on or resembling folklore: folkloric music.
  • folkright — a law or right of the people as opposed to that of the privileged classes.
  • folksongs — Plural form of folksong.
  • folktales — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
  • follicles — Plural form of follicle.
  • follow up — the act of following.
  • follow-on — following or evolving as the next logical step: Aircraft manufacturers can expect follow-on sales for spare parts.
  • follow-up — the act of following up.
  • followers — Plural form of follower.
  • following — the act of following.
  • followups — the act of following up.
  • fomalhaut — a star of the first magnitude and the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • fongafale — the capital of Tuvalu, on Funafuti Island, in the South Pacific Ocean.
  • fontanels — Plural form of fontanel.
  • fonticuli — fontanelles
  • fontology — (XEROX PARC) The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g. for window systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology recapitulates file-ogeny. Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole different set of abstractions for fonts parallel to "files" and "folders" - ESR
  • food mile — a unit used to measure the distance that a food product travels from where it is produced to where it is sold or consumed
  • food mill — a hand-operated kitchen device for puréeing fruits and vegetables.
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