8-letter words containing r, l, f
- firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
- firewalk — An instance of firewalking.
- firewall — a partition made of fireproof material to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building or ship to another or to isolate an engine compartment, as on a plane, automobile, etc.
- firmless — unstable, unsteady, not firmly fixed
- fissural — Pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
- flabbier — Comparative form of flabby.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flagrant — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- flancard — a piece of armour covering a horse's flank
- flanders — a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the adjacent parts of N France and SW Netherlands.
- flanerie — idleness; dawdling.
- flaneurs — Plural form of flaneur.
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flappers — something broad and flat used for striking or for making a noise by striking.
- flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flare-up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- flashers — Plural form of flasher.
- flat car — a railroad car without raised sides or ends
- flatcars — Plural form of flatcar.
- flatform — A type of shoe with a flat, platform sole.
- flatiron — a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
- flatters — Plural form of flatter.
- flattery — the act of flattering.
- flatware — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- flatwork — sheets, tablecloths, etc., that are ordinarily ironed mechanically, as on a mangle, rather than by hand.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- flaunter — to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- flavorer — One who or that which flavors.
- flavours — Plural form of flavour.
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- fleecier — Comparative form of fleecy.
- fleering — Present participle of fleer.
- fleshers — Plural form of flesher.
- fleshier — Comparative form of fleshy.
- fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- flexural — the act of flexing or bending.
- flexures — Plural form of flexure.
- flibbert — a small piece or bit
- flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flickers — Plural form of flicker.
- flickery — Seeming to flicker; unsteady.
- flighter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flimsier — Comparative form of flimsy.