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9-letter words containing o, n, t, l

  • fellation — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.
  • fictional — invented as part of a work of fiction: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.
  • filiation — the fact of being the child of a certain parent.
  • flagstone — Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.
  • flat bond — a bond that is traded without accrued interest as part of the price.
  • flat knot — reef knot.
  • flatirons — Plural form of flatiron.
  • flexatone — A modern percussion instrument consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.
  • flintlock — an outmoded gunlock in which a piece of flint striking against steel produces sparks that ignite the priming.
  • florulent — (obsolete) Flowery; blossoming.
  • flotation — an act or state of floating.
  • flowstone — a layered deposit of calcium carbonate, CaCO 3 , left by thin sheets of flowing water, as in a cave.
  • flunk out — to fail in a course or examination.
  • fly front — a flap of material down one side of the front opening of a garment to conceal buttons, fasteners, or the like, as on a coat or dress.
  • foliation — the act or process of putting forth leaves.
  • folketing — the unicameral parliament of Denmark.
  • fontanels — Plural form of fontanel.
  • fonticuli — fontanelles
  • fontology — (XEROX PARC) The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g. for window systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology recapitulates file-ogeny. Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole different set of abstractions for fonts parallel to "files" and "folders" - ESR
  • foot line — Printing. a line at the bottom of a page of type, especially a black line or a line containing the folio.
  • frivolent — (nonstandard) frivolous, trifling, silly.
  • frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
  • frontally — In a frontal manner.
  • frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
  • frontless — shameless; unblushing.
  • frontlets — Plural form of frontlet.
  • frontline — front (def 9).
  • frontlist — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
  • frontload — Alternative form of front-load.
  • frostline — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
  • fullerton — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • gallstone — an abnormal stonelike mass, usually of cholesterol, formed in the gallbladder or bile passages.
  • galveston — a seaport in SE Texas, on an island at the mouth of Galveston Bay.
  • gantelope — gauntlet2 .
  • geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
  • get along — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • gilsonite — an extremely pure asphalt particularly valuable for the manufacture of paints and varnishes.
  • gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
  • glom onto — to take and hold; obtain
  • gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
  • glutenous — like gluten.
  • glutinous — of the nature of glue; gluey; viscid; sticky.
  • gluttoned — Simple past tense and past participle of glutton.
  • glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
  • gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
  • gold note — a former U.S. bank note payable in gold coin.
  • goldstone — aventurine.
  • goliathan — huge; gigantic
  • granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
  • hailstone — a pellet of hail.
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