9-letter words containing f, u, l, t
- flush out — run liquid through to clean
- flustered — to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me.
- flutelike — Resembling a flute or the sound of flute music.
- fluttered — to wave, flap, or toss about: Banners fluttered in the breeze.
- flutterer — Agent noun of flutter; one who flutters.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- flux gate — Physics. an instrument for indicating the field strength of an external magnetic field, as that of the earth: used in some gyrocompasses and magnetometers.
- fluxmeter — an instrument for measuring magnetic flux, consisting essentially of a ballistic galvanometer.
- fluxuates — Misspelling of fluctuates.
- foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
- fomalhaut — a star of the first magnitude and the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- foot rule — a ruler one foot (30.48 cm) in length.
- footfault — to commit a foot fault.
- forgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- formulate — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- fossulate — hollowed; grooved
- foul shot — a throw from the foul line, given a player after a foul has been called against an opponent.
- fractural — Of or pertaining to a fracture.
- fretfully — In a fretful manner.
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fruit fly — any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
- fruitfull — Archaic form of fruitful.
- fruitless — useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure.
- frustules — Plural form of frustule.
- frustulum — a small breakfast permitted on fast days.
- fuel tank — vehicle's petrol storage container
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- fulgently — In a fulgent manner; so as to dazzle or glitter.
- fulgurant — flashing like lightning.
- fulgurate — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulgurite — a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning.
- full stop — period (defs 10, 11).
- full term — completion
- full tilt — at the full potential, speed, energy, forcefulness, etc.
- full toss — a bowled ball that reaches the batsman without bouncing
- full-term — of or noting the entire duration of normal pregnancy.
- full-time — working or operating the customary number of hours in each day, week, or month: a full-time housekeeper; full-time production. Compare part-time.
- fullerite — a crystalline form of a fullerene
- fullerton — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- fulminant — occurring suddenly and with great intensity or severity; fulminating.
- fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- furtherly — Favorable, advanced.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- fustilugs — a fat, gross, or frowzy person, esp a woman
- genuflect — to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
- gratefull — Archaic form of grateful.