9-letter words containing f, l
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- biofouler — an animal that obstructs or pollutes the environment
- biofueled — running on biofuel
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bit field — (data) Part of an item of data, storage location or message, identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting at a certain bit position within the data. Bit position zero is usually the least significant bit. For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
- black fly — any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds
- black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
- black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
- blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- block off — When you block off a door, window, or passage, you put something across it so that nothing can pass through it.
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bluffable — able to be achieved through or influenced by bluffing
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
- bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- breathful — full of breath; living
- briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients
- brimfully — in a brimfull manner
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- bucketful — A bucketful of something is the amount contained in a bucket.
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bull calf — a male calf
- bullfight — A bullfight is a public entertainment in which people fight and kill bulls. Bullfights take place in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
- bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
- bully-off — a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
- bumfuzzle — to confuse
- bushelful — an amount equal to the capacity of a bushel.
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- calc-tufa — tufa (def 1).
- calc-tuff — Also called calcareous tufa, calc-tufa, calc-tuff. a porous limestone formed from calcium carbonate deposited by springs or the like. Compare travertine.