9-letter words containing o, f, a, l, i
- flavonoid — flavonoid.
- flavoring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- flavorist — a person whose job is to blend natural and artificial ingredients to create the taste and smell of a specific food.
- flexional — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- floptical — Denoting or relating to a type of floppy-disk drive using a laser to position the read-write head.
- floriated — made of or decorated with floral ornamentation: floriated design; floriated china.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- floridean — of or relating to members of the botanical genus Florideae (red algae)
- floridian — of or relating to the state of Florida.
- flotation — an act or state of floating.
- flotillas — Plural form of flotilla.
- fluxional — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- focalized — Simple past tense and past participle of focalize.
- focalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of focalize.
- foliation — the act or process of putting forth leaves.
- foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
- foliolate — pertaining to or consisting of leaflets (often used in combination, as bifoliolate).
- foot rail — a stretcher connecting the legs of a piece of furniture, as a chair or table, upon which the feet may be rested.
- foraminal — an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- forbiddal — Lb archaic The act of forbidding something.
- foresails — Plural form of foresail.
- forestial — Of, like or having to do with a forest.
- form nail — a nail used in building temporary structures, having a stop on its shank to prevent its being driven in all the way and to leave the head free for pulling.
- formalise — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
- formalism — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formalize — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
- formulaic — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fossorial — digging or burrowing.
- francolin — any of numerous Eurasian and African partridges of the genus Francolinus, having sharply spurred legs.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- fungoidal — of, relating to, or caused by a fungus or fungi; resembling a fungus or fungi; fungoid
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- hail from — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- modafinil — A stimulant often used in the treatment of various sleep disorders, having the chemical formula C15H15NO2S.