8-letter words containing f, r, o
- firehook — (dated, historical) a long pole with a hook at the end, used to pull down buildings and roof thatch to suppress a fire.
- firehose — Alternative spelling of fire hose.
- firelock — a gun having a lock in which the priming is ignited by sparks struck from flint and steel, as the flintlock musket.
- firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
- fireroom — a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.
- firestop — any object built into a building frame to block a concealed hollow space through which a fire might pass from one part of the building to another.
- firewood — wood suitable for fuel.
- firework — Often, fireworks. a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise, used for signaling or as part of a celebration.
- fireworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Rhopobota naevana (black-headed fireworm) which feeds on the leaves of cranberries and causes them to wither.
- fishworm — an earthworm.
- fixators — Plural form of fixator.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floeberg — a mass of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
- floggers — Plural form of flogger.
- flooders — high waters.
- floorage — floor space.
- flooring — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- floorman — a floor manager.
- flopover — a continuous, vertical movement of a television image picture caused by interference in reception or by improper tuning.
- floppers — air plant (def 2).
- floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
- florally — In a floral way; with flowers or something that suggests them.
- florence — Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
- florette — a small flower.
- florican — any of various smaller species of bustards.
- floridly — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- florigen — a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- florists — Plural form of florist.
- flossier — Comparative form of flossy.
- flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flouring — Present participle of flour.
- flourish — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- flowered — having flowers.
- flowerer — a plant that flowers at a specific time or in a certain manner.
- floweret — a small flower; floret.
- 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.
- fluework — the flue stops of an organ collectively
- fluorene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 13 H 10 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and dyes.
- fluorian — (geology) containing fluorine.
- fluoride — a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF.