8-letter words containing fl
- fly high — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- fly into — If you fly into a bad temper or a panic, you suddenly become very angry or anxious and show this in your behaviour.
- fly kick — a kick at the ball on the ground made by a running player
- fly line — a line for use in fly-fishing.
- fly page — banner
- fly rail — Furniture. a horizontally swinging bracket for supporting a drop leaf.
- fly swat — fly swatter.
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- fly-cast — Angling. to fish by fly casting.
- fly-fish — to fish with artificial flies as bait.
- fly-loft — to move through the air using wings.
- fly-over — overpass across a motorway
- fly-past — a ceremonial flight of aircraft over a given area
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- flyblows — the eggs or young larvae of a blowfly, deposited on meat, paper, etc
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flyovers — Plural form of flyover.
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flypitch — an area for unlicensed stalls at markets
- flysheet — A tract or circular of two or four pages.
- flyspeck — a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly.
- flyspray — a liquid used to destroy flies and other insects, sprayed from an aerosol
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- flywheel — a heavy disk or wheel rotating on a shaft so that its momentum gives almost uniform rotational speed to the shaft and to all connected machinery.
- flywhisk — a device for brushing away flies, often made of horsehair.
- frit fly — a minute European fly, Oscinella frit, the larvae of which are serious pests of wheat and other cereals.
- fruitfly — Alternative spelling of fruit fly.
- gadflies — Plural form of gadfly.
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gigaflop — gigaflops
- greenfly — an aphid, Coloradoa rufomaculata, that is an important pest of chrysanthemums.
- gulflike — Resembling a gulf or some aspect of one.
- gunflint — the flint in a flintlock.
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- harfleur — a port in N France, in Seine-Maritime department: important centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 8602 (2005)
- heel fly — cattle grub.
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- horn fly — a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, especially of cattle.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- housefly — a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- ice floe — a large flat mass of floating ice.
- in flood — If a river is in flood, it is flowing over its banks because it has more water in it than normal.
- inflamed — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- inflamer — (usually, figuratively) Something that inflames.
- inflames — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflame.
- inflated — distended with air or gas; swollen.