8-letter words containing r, o, f, l
- fourball — a match for two pairs in which each player uses his own ball, the better score of each pair being counted at every hole
- fourfold — comprising four parts or members.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- fourplex — quadplex.
- fourthly — in the fourth place; fourth.
- foveolar — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- frailero — an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
- frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
- freehold — a town in E New Jersey: battle of Monmouth courthouse 1778.
- freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- freeroll — (poker) A poker tournament with no entry fee.
- frijoles — any bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the kidney bean, the seeds of which are used for food in Mexico, in the southwestern U.S., etc.
- froglike — any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
- frogling — A young or little frog.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- frontlet — Also, frontal. a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead: The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.
- frostily — characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold: frosty weather.
- frothily — In a frothy way.
- frowzily — in a frowzy or unkempt manner
- frozenly — While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
- fuel rod — nuclear fuel contained in a long thin-walled tube, an array of such tubes forming the core of a nuclear reactor.
- fumarole — a hole in or near a volcano, from which vapor rises.
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- furfurol — (erroneously) furfural.
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- fusarole — a type of architectural moulding often found below the echinus or quarter round of a column
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- hillfort — a hilltop fortified with ramparts and ditches, dating from the second millennium bc
- hold for — to apply or be relevant to
- horn fly — a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, especially of cattle.
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- humorful — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- korfball — (uncountable) A non-contact unisex team sport originating from Holland, similar to netball, where players attempt to throw a ball into a basket atop a pole.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- lagerlof — Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) [sel-mah awt-ti-lee-ah-nah loo-vi-sah] /ˈsɛl mɑ ˌɔt tɪ liˈɑ nɑ ˈlu vɪˌsɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.
- landform — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- lavaform — in the form of lava
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.