7-letter words containing l, f, r
- glorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- golfers — Plural form of golfer.
- grayfly — any of various stout-bodied hairy dipterous flies of the families Oestridae and Gasterophilidae; a botfly
- gruffly — low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- herself — See myself.
- hornful — the amount a horn will hold
- hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.
- israfil — the angel who will sound the trumpet announcing the end of the world.
- karloff — Boris (William Henry Pratt) 1887–1969, British actor in the U.S.
- keerful — Eye dialect of careful.
- kerflop — with or as if with a flop: He fell kerflop.
- krefeld — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, NW of Cologne.
- lawfare — the use of the law by a country against its enemies, esp by challenging the legality of military or foreign policy
- lay for — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leafery — leafage or foliage
- leafier — Comparative form of leafy.
- leofric — died 1057, earl of Mercia c1030–57 (husband of Lady Godiva).
- lifford — the county town of Donegal, Republic of Ireland; market town. Pop: 1395 (2002)
- lifters — Plural form of lifter.
- loafers — Plural form of loafer.
- loffler — Friedrich August Johannes [free-drikh ou-goo st yoh-hah-nuh s] /ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), 1852–1915, German bacteriologist.
- loftier — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- lucifer — a proud, rebellious archangel, identified with Satan, who fell from heaven.
- merfolk — Mythical creatures that are human from the waist up and fish from the waist down.
- milford — a city in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- muffler — a scarf worn around one's neck for warmth.
- norfolk — a county in E England. 2068 sq. mi. (5355 sq. km).
- ourself — Used instead of “ ourselves, ” typically when “ we ” refers to people in general rather than a definite group of people.
- overfly — to fly over (a specified area, territory, country, etc.): The plane lost its way and overflew foreign territory.
- palfrey — a riding horse, as distinguished from a war horse.
- paralfl — Hudak, Yale. Parallel functional language, a superset of Alfl. Used by the Alfalfa system on Intel iPSC and Encore Multimax.
- piffler — someone who talks nonsense
- pilfery — theft
- prefile — relating to an investigation conducted before filing a charge
- prelife — a life lived before one's life on earth
- preyful — predatory
- profile — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- purfler — someone who purfles
- rackful — Enough to fill a rack.
- raffled — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- raffles — rubbish.
- rageful — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- rc file — /R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to "run commands"] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file, profile (sense 1).
- redflag — the symbol or banner of a left-wing revolutionary party.
- reflate — to increase again the amount of money and credit in circulation.
- reflect — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- reflisp — (language) A small Lisp interpreter written in C++ by Bill Birch of Bull, UK. RefLisp has a built-in web server, Wiki, LISP server pages, SQL Databases, XML parser, MD5 hashing, regular expressions, reference counting and mark-sweep garbage collection. RefLisp has shallow-binding and dynamic scope with optional support for lexical scope, Common Lisp compatibility and for indefinite extent Scheme programs. RefLisp is distributed under the GPL.
- refloat — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
- reflood — to flood again