9-letter words that end in l
- forgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- form nail — a nail used in building temporary structures, having a stop on its shank to prevent its being driven in all the way and to leave the head free for pulling.
- forrestal — James Vincent, 1892–1949, U.S. financier, secretary of Defense 1947–49.
- fort sill — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SW Oklahoma, N of Lawton; field artillery school.
- 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 soil — territory in which there is no slavery; esp., any territory in the U.S. where slavery was prohibited before the Civil War
- free will — free and independent choice; voluntary decision: You took on the responsibility of your own free will.
- 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.
- free-soil — pertaining to or opposing the extension of slavery in the Territories.
- freewheel — a device in the transmission of a motor vehicle that automatically disengages the drive shaft whenever it begins to turn more rapidly than the engine.
- frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
- friendful — Full of friendlihood; friendly.
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frikkadel — A traditional Afrikaner dish of baked (or sometimes deep-fried) meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
- frogstool — a toadstool.
- from hell — You can use from hell after a noun when you are emphasizing that something or someone is extremely unpleasant or evil.
- fruitfull — Archaic form of fruitful.
- fuel cell — a device that produces a continuous electric current directly from the oxidation of a fuel, as that of hydrogen by oxygen.
- fuel rail — A fuel rail is high pressure tubing which takes fuel to the injectors in an internal combustion engine.
- full sail — all the sails of a vessel: All three ships had full sail set.
- 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.
- fusel oil — a mixture consisting chiefly of amyl alcohols obtained as a by-product in the fermentation of grains.
- gaff sail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gaitskell — Hugh Todd Naylor [ney-ler] /ˈneɪ lər/ (Show IPA), 1906–63, English economist and statesman: Labour party leader 1955–63.
- galenical — an herb or other vegetable drug, distinguished from a mineral or chemical drug.
- game fowl — a domestic fowl of a breed much used for fighting.
- game-ball — (of a person) in perfect health
- ganga jal — sacred water from the River Ganges in India
- gardenful — An amount sufficient to fill a garden.
- garfunkel — Arthur ("Art") born 1942, U.S. singer.
- gas pedal — Automotive. gas (def 5b).
- gas-pedal — Automotive. gas (def 5b).
- gearwheel — a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.
- gene pool — the total genetic information in the gametes of all the individuals in a population.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genetical — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- genitival — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- georgical — Georgic; relating to rural affairs.
- germ cell — the sexual reproductive cell at any stage from the primordial cell to the mature gamete.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- glass eel — elver.
- glycocoll — glycine
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.