8-letter words that end in l
- farcical — pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
- farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- farmgirl — A girl or young woman who works on a farm.
- farnesol — a colorless, unsaturated, liquid alcohol, C 15 H 26 O, having a slight floral odor, extracted from the flowers of the acacia, cassia oil, or the like: used in perfumery.
- farnesyl — (biochemistry) The univalent radical derived from farnesol.
- fastball — a pitch thrown at or near a pitcher's maximum velocity.
- fat cell — a cell in loose connective tissue that is specialized for the synthesis and storage of fat.
- fat tail — a tail on a probability distribution that indicates a high level of risk
- faultful — Full of faults or sins.
- fauteuil — French Furniture. an upholstered armchair, especially one with open sides.
- fearfull — Archaic form of fearful.
- feastful — festive, occupied with feasting
- fee tail — a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
- feedwell — A feedwell is a small container which holds the feed to a bulk settler (= device for separating two substances by gravity) and from which the feed overflows.
- femerall — a ventilator or smoke outlet in a roof
- femerell — (archaic) The lantern, louvre, or covering placed in the ridge of a hall roof for the purpose of ventilation or letting out the smoke of the fire kindled on a central hearth.
- fentanyl — a synthetic, short-acting narcotic analgesic and sedative, C 22 H 28 N 2 O, used pharmacologically in anesthesia and neuroleptanalgesia, and also as an illicit drug: Medics quickly administered fentanyl to the injured soldiers. Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.
- festival — a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances: the festival of Christmas; a Roman festival.
- fiducial — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- filarial — belonging to the genus Filaria and allied genera of the family Filariidae.
- fimbrial — Of or pertaining to the fimbriae.
- fin keel — a finlike projection extending downward from the keel of a sailboat, serving to prevent lateral motion and acting as additional ballast.
- fipronil — A broad-spectrum insecticide that disrupts the insect's central nervous system.
- fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
- firecall — A call of fire alarm to a fire station.
- firehall — a fire station
- 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.
- fishball — A Chinese food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball.
- fishbowl — a glass bowl for goldfish, snails, etc.
- fishkill — the sudden destruction of large quantities of fish, as by pollution.
- fishmeal — dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.
- fishtail — to swerve or skid from side to side, as the rear end of a car.
- fissural — Pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
- flavanol — (organic compound) Any of a class of flavonoids that use the 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-ol molecular skeleton.
- flavonol — the 3-hydroxy derivative of flavone, many of whose derivatives, as quercetin, are naturally occurring yellow dyes.
- flexural — the act of flexing or bending.
- fly ball — a ball that is batted up into the air.
- fly rail — Furniture. a horizontally swinging bracket for supporting a drop leaf.
- 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.
- folderal — Alternative spelling of folderol.
- folderol — falderal.
- fontanel — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- foosball — A tabletop version of soccer in which players turn rods fixed on top of a playing box and attached to miniature figures of players, in order to flick the ball and strike it toward the goal.
- football — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footfall — a footstep.
- foothill — a low hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- footwell — a recessed compartment in front of the seats of a vehicle.
- for real — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
- forceful — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.