8-letter words containing r, l, f
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
- pilferer — petty thief
- piliform — having the form of a hair; resembling hair.
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- play for — sport: represent, be on the side of
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- pratfall — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- preflame — of the period before combustion
- pressful — the quantity that a press can hold
- prideful — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- pro-life — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- profiled — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiler — any of several types of machine tools for reproducing shapes in metal or other materials from a master form.
- prolifer — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- prolific — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proudful — proud; full of pride.
- pull for — favour, support
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purseful — an amount which can be contained in a purse
- radcliff — a city in central Kentucky.
- raffling — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- rainfall — a fall or shower of rain.
- rap full — (of a sail or sails) filled with wind; clean full.
- red flag — communist symbol
- red wolf — a small, reddish-gray American wolf, Canis rufus, similar to the coyote: once abundant in the southeastern U.S., it is now near extinction in the wild.
- red-flag — to mark or draw attention to for a particular purpose: The department has red-flagged the most urgent repair work to be done.
- redfield — Robert, 1897–1958, American anthropologist.
- reefable — (of a sail) able to be reefed
- reel off — a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- reel-fed — involving or printing on a web of paper
- referral — an act of referring; the state of being referred.
- refilter — to filter again
- reflexed — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reflexly — in a reflex manner
- reflower — to flower again
- refluent — flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
- relexify — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- reliefer — Baseball. relief pitcher.
- riffling — a rapid, as in a stream.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- riftless — without rift
- rightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- rockfall — an act or instance of the falling of rock, as in a cave-in or an avalanche.
- roll off — Electronics. the rate of loss or attenuation of a signal beyond a certain frequency.
- roll-off — Electronics. the rate of loss or attenuation of a signal beyond a certain frequency.