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9-letter words containing al

  • floodwall — A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood.
  • floptical — Denoting or relating to a type of floppy-disk drive using a laser to position the read-write head.
  • fluxional — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.
  • focalized — Simple past tense and past participle of focalize.
  • focalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of focalize.
  • folk tale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
  • folktales — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
  • fomalhaut — a star of the first magnitude and the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • fongafale — the capital of Tuvalu, on Funafuti Island, in the South Pacific Ocean.
  • footballs — Plural form of football.
  • footfalls — Plural form of footfall.
  • footstalk — a pedicel; peduncle.
  • footstall — the stirrup of a woman's sidesaddle.
  • footwalls — Plural form of footwall.
  • foraminal — an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
  • forbiddal — Lb archaic The act of forbidding something.
  • forestall — to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
  • forestial — Of, like or having to do with a forest.
  • forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
  • formalise — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
  • formalism — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
  • formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
  • formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
  • formalize — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
  • forrestal — James Vincent, 1892–1949, U.S. financier, secretary of Defense 1947–49.
  • fortaleza — a seaport in NE Brazil.
  • fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
  • fossorial — digging or burrowing.
  • foul ball — a batted ground ball that is hit and played outside the foul lines, or that passes outside the foul lines at first or third base, or that is played outside the foul line between home and first or third base regardless of where hit.
  • fractural — Of or pertaining to a fracture.
  • fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
  • free fall — fall: subject to gravity
  • free-fall — (of parachutists) to descend initially, as for a designated interval, in a free fall: The jumpers were required to free-fall for eight seconds.
  • frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
  • frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
  • frontally — In a frontal manner.
  • frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
  • frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
  • fungoidal — of, relating to, or caused by a fungus or fungi; resembling a fungus or fungi; fungoid
  • furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
  • galactico — (football) A football superstar.
  • galactoid — resembling milk; milky.
  • galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
  • galantine — a dish of boned poultry, wrapped in its skin and poached in gelatin stock, pressed, and served cold with aspic or its own jelly.
  • galatians — a book in the New Testament, written to the Christians in Galatia. Abbreviation: Gal.
  • galbraith — John Kenneth, 1908–2006, U.S. economist, born in Canada.
  • galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
  • galenical — an herb or other vegetable drug, distinguished from a mineral or chemical drug.
  • galeproof — Capable of resisting a gale.
  • galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
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