10-letter words containing u, f, o, l
- dusseldorf — a state in W Germany; formerly a part of Rhine province. 13,154 sq. mi. (34,070 sq. km). Capital: Düsseldorf.
- endosulfan — (chemistry) a toxic chlorinated polycyclic insecticide used to control mites.
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- fabulously — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- factiously — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- falun gong — a Chinese system of meditation, martial-arts exercises, and spiritual teachings.
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- favourable — Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- favourably — (British, Canada) In a favourable manner.
- favourless — without favour, unfortunate
- feateously — in a featous manner
- feel up to — to perceive or examine by touch.
- felicitous — well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- ferruginol — (organic compound) A diterpene of the abietane chemical class that has been isolated from the needles of the redwood Sequoia sempervirens.
- feuilleton — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- feverously — feverish.
- fibrillous — composed of small fibres
- fieldmouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
- filopodium — a long, hairlike pseudopod composed of ectoplasm.
- filter out — ignore
- fimicolous — of or relating to an organism that lives on or in animal excrement.
- fish flour — powdered fish, high in protein, used as an ingredient in other foods.
- fish louse — any of numerous small crustaceans, especially certain copepods, parasitic on the skin and gills of fish.
- fizzle out — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
- flacourtia — designating a family (Flacourtiaceae, order Violales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees and shrubs
- flagitious — shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
- flatterous — flattering
- flavourful — British standard spelling of flavorful.
- flavouring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- flavourist — a chemist who blends ingredients to create artificial flavours or scents, for food or perfume
- flavourous — Alternative spelling of flavorous.
- flexihours — hours of work under flexitime
- flexuosity — the quality or condition of being flexuous.
- flexuously — In a flexuous way.
- flocculant — a chemical for producing flocculation of suspended particles, as to improve the plasticity of clay for ceramic purposes.
- flocculate — to form into flocculent masses.
- flocculent — like a clump or tuft of wool.
- flophouses — Plural form of flophouse.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- florideous — belonging to the Florideae family of algae, or having the characteristics thereof
- flosculous — (botany) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flounderer — One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
- flour mill — a mill for grinding grain into flour.
- flour mite — any of several mites that infest flour and other stored organic materials and may be a serious pest; some may cause itching in persons handling infected material
- flour moth — larva of butterfly that feeds on grain