9-letter words containing l, u, f, a
- filaceous — composed of threads
- filatures — Plural form of filature.
- final cut — the final edited version of a film, approved by the director and producer.
- fistulate — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- flabellum — a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flagellum — A slender threadlike structure, especially a microscopic whiplike appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc., to swim.
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flak suit — a suit of two or more padded armored garments designed to protect the body from shrapnel.
- flake out — flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap.
- flake-out — flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap.
- flambeaux — a flaming torch.
- flame gun — a type of flame-thrower for destroying garden weeds
- flame out — burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
- flame-out — the failure of a jet engine due to an interruption of the fuel supply or to faulty combustion.
- flameouts — Plural form of flameout.
- flaminius — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), died 217 b.c, Roman statesman and general who was defeated by Hannibal.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flat sour — fermentation occurring in canned foods after sealing.
- flatulate — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
- flatulent — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- flaughter — a fluttering
- flauntier — Comparative form of flaunty.
- flaunting — Present participle of flaunt.
- flautists — Plural form of flautist.
- flavorful — full of flavor; tasty.
- flavorous — full of flavor.
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flavourer — One who or that which flavours.
- floccular — of or relating to the flocculus of the cerebellum
- floscular — Flosculous.
- fluctuant — fluctuating; varying; unstable.
- fluctuate — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluffhead — (pejorative) A silly or vacuous person; an airhead.
- flugelman — fugleman.
- fluorated — (chemistry) Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.
- fluorspar — fluorite.
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- 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.
- fluxional — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.
- fluxuates — Misspelling of fluctuates.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
- fomalhaut — a star of the first magnitude and the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- footfault — to commit a foot fault.