7-letter words containing f, l
- bee fly — any hairy beelike nectar-eating dipterous fly of the family Bombyliidae, whose larvae are parasitic on those of bees and related insects
- beefalo — a cross between a domestic cow and a buffalo, technically one that is three-eighths buffalo and five-eighths cow, intended for beef production
- beetfly — a muscid fly, Pegomyia hyoscyami: a common pest of beets and mangel-wurzels
- befalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befall.
- befleck — to fleck all over
- belfast — the capital of Northern Ireland, a port on Belfast Lough in Belfast district, Co Antrim and Co Down: became the centre of Irish Protestantism and of the linen industry in the 17th century; seat of the Northern Ireland assembly and executive. Pop: 281 000 (2011 est)
- belfort — a fortress town in E France: strategically situated in the Belfort Gap between the Vosges and the Jura mountains. Pop: 50 417 (1999)
- beliefs — something believed; an opinion or conviction: a belief that the earth is flat.
- beowulf — an anonymous Old English epic poem in alliterative verse, believed to have been composed in the 8th century ad
- bifilar — having two parallel threads, as in the suspension of certain measuring instruments
- bifocal — having two different focuses
- biofilm — a thin layer of living organisms
- biofuel — A biofuel is a gas, liquid, or solid from natural sources such as plants that is used as a fuel.
- blowfly — any of various dipterous flies of the genus Calliphora and related genera that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, carrion, and open wounds: family Calliphoridae
- blowoff — the discharge or venting of surplus liquid or gas
- bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- boatful — an amount or number that could be carried by a boat
- bodeful — portentous, foreboding, ominous
- boffola — a particularly funny joke
- boiloff — quantity of liquified gases lost in evaporation
- bookful — an amount that would fill a book
- bowlful — The contents of a bowl can be referred to as a bowlful of something.
- briefly — Something that happens or is done briefly happens or is done for a very short period of time.
- brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
- buffalo — A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
- bushfly — any of various small black dipterous flies of Australia, esp Musca vetustissima, that breed in faeces and dung: family Calliphoridae
- by half — If you increase something by half, half of the original amount is added to it. If you decrease it by half, half of the original amount is taken away from it.
- caffila — a caravan train
- cafileh — Alternative form of cafila.
- cageful — an amount which fills a cage to capacity
- calcify — to convert or be converted into lime
- careful — If you are careful, you give serious attention to what you are doing, in order to avoid harm, damage, or mistakes. If you are careful to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- cartful — the amount a cart can hold
- cat flu — an upper respiratory-tract infection in cats, resulting in sneezing, ocular and nasal discharges, and coughs
- catfall — the line used in a cat
- catflap — flap at the bottom of a door that a cat can push to get in or out
- chiefly — You use chiefly to indicate that a particular reason, emotion, method, or feature is the main or most important one.
- chifley — Joseph Benedict. 1885–1951, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1945–49)
- chuffle — (of the larger species of cats) to make a low snuffling sound analogous to the purring of smaller cat species, often as a greeting.
- chylify — to turn into, or produce, chyle
- clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
- cleffer — (informal) songwriter.
- clefted — Having a cleft; cloven.
- clifton — a masculine name
- coalify — to turn into coal
- coffles — Plural form of coffle.
- cofinal — of or relating to a subset of a set with a partial order relation, as “greater than” or “equal to,” in which corresponding to each element in the set is an element in the subset that is in relation to the given element.
- comfily — (informal) comfortably.
- conflab — (informal) A discussion.
- conflux — confluence