9-letter words containing f, o, l
- confuzzle — (neologism, cute, childish) The state of confusion and/or being puzzled.
- cornfield — A cornfield is a field in which corn is being grown.
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornflour — Cornflour is a fine white powder made from maize and is used to make sauces thicker.
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- daffodils — Plural form of daffodil.
- damn fool — Damn fool means 'very stupid'.
- data flow — (architecture) A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflexion — deflection
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- dobsonfly — a large, soft-bodied insect, Corydalus cornutus, having four distinctly veined membranous wings, biting mouthparts, and, in the male, huge mandibles that jut out from the head.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- dolefully — sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
- dolorific — Of or relating to pain.
- doomfully — in a doomful manner
- dorsiflex — Bend (something, typically the hand or foot ) dorsally or toward its upper surface.
- doubtfull — Archaic form of doubtful.
- downfalls — Plural form of downfall.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
- driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
- drop leaf — a hinged leaf attached to the end or side of a table that can be raised to extend the tabletop or folded vertically downward when not in use.
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- effluxion — outward flow, as of water.
- effortful — marked by effort or exertion; labored.
- eightfoil — an eight-leaved flower shape
- eightfold — Eight times as great or as numerous.
- el ferrol — a port in NW Spain, on the Atlantic: fortified naval base, with a deep natural harbour. Pop: 78 764 (2003 est)
- elfinwood — Krummholz.
- end float — End float is the amount by which a shaft can move lengthwise.
- enfolding — Present participle of enfold.
- exfoliant — A cosmetic product designed to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- exfoliate — (of a material) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers.
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- facecloth — washcloth.
- factional — of a faction or factions.
- factoidal — of or resembling a factoid; (of a piece of writing) comprising facts and factoids
- factorial — Mathematics. the product of a given positive integer multiplied by all lesser positive integers: The quantity four factorial (4!) = 4 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 1 = 24. Symbol: n!, where n is the given integer.