9-Letter Words Starting with F

Filagree

If they turn sad, make light of them

Parts of electric lights.

Parts of electric bulbs.

Filature

Filicide

With lacy ornamental work.

Delicately ornamented

Filigree

Filister

Fillet

Filmgoer

Having a gauze-like appearance

Picture framer (wordplay)

Filterer

Making purer, in a way

Most in need of a bath

Variant of filterable .

Filtrate

One has strained to get them

It's a bit of a strain getting them

""Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube. as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.""

Finagler

Sale I find, after negotiation, agreed upon

Finalis

Completed, modern style.

Finalize

Rothschild for one

Rothschild for one

I can infer (anagram)

Using a bridge ploy

Handling deftly

Finfish

Fingerer

Stealing a pianist's technique

Musician's technique

The handy way to make the pianist 17 across

Identify O'Neill (wordplay)

It's printed (wordplay)

Touch on clue one's nailed!

Finicky

Ones eligible for marathon prizes

Some cement workers

Confused in Irish fens, they complete the course

Finitude

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

Fireback

Large, bright meteors.

Shooting stars

Energetic people

Firebase

Bright orioles

Orioles

FDNY's Bravest and William M. Feehan, for example

Firebomb

Furnace parts

Hearth

What radio bosses do to a troublemaker

One who stirs up trouble

Energetic person often fomenting trouble

Firebrat

Gap in vegetation

Blaze-stopping clear spot

Strip cut from forest yielding free bark I distributed

""A brick made of fire clay, used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys.""

Fireclay

Firedamp

D&D arbiters

Dragon

Firefang

OK corral event

Gun battle

Insects start it when the flame jumps

They have tail lights

Airborne beetles

Screen in front of grate

Hearth screen

It's useless when chocolate figure's misshapen and rigid, as Cockney says

Places for some engines

Personnel office, to some (wordplay)

Personnel office, to some?

Love of a Lifetime band

A Very (wordplay)

Hearthside's glow.

Glow from hearth

Muskets

FIREMAN a man employed to extinguish fires

Firepink

Volcano's address (wordplay)

Milieu for stockings.

Recess at the base of a chimney

Hydrants

Disposable weapons (wordplay)

What 1 across has in the 10 across way

*Military's capability

Able to withstand great heat

Secure from burning

Like asbestos, if backing censure

Fireroom

Cozy curl-up spots

Symbols of home life.

Chat sites

Big name in tires

Pneumatic tire pioneer.

Early Ford supplier

Outburst of controversy

Outburst of protest

Violent outburst

Tree then, or kind of plant

Tinderboxes (wordplay)

Unsafe buildings.

Dangerous buildings

Strong drink (two elements!)

Imbiber's intake

Order with an intimidating proof

Fireweed

Firewood

Fuel is on rockets, perhaps

Independence Day show

Pyrotechnist's products

Cranberry pests

Weapon provided backing for a vault

The starry heaven

Definite agreement takes time in Heaven

Firmware

Peril of salmon

Shore dinner hazards.

Farms for fry

'Geezer' playing bass perhaps

West's compleatly shod angler (wordplay)

One making net gains (wordplay)

Earners of net profits (wordplay)

Others with St. Nick's patronage

Catchers of sea creatures

PATERnosters

Flies and worms (wordplay)

FISHPLATE

Fishpole

Foul mouthed females

Spooner's desire - game at Eton with loud-mouthed women

Fission

Fissiped

Printer's pointers

If you have to start to pay them, subtlety is needed

Fixative

The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.

Flabby

Fan used in religious ceremonies

Of or relating to a flagellum.

The chief protein component of bacterial flagella.

Whiplike cell part

Taillike part in bacteria.

In botany a long thin supple shoot or runner

French green bean

Relative of the fipple flute.

Instrument of the recorder family

Flaggy

Summon Warsaw citizens (wordplay)

Standard bearers (wordplay)

Ornaments of the U. N. Plaza.

Notoriety of prisoner held in country

Outrageousness in first-hand changing of scent

Hail author Irving (wordplay)

Terrace surface, perhaps

Hail author Irving?

Piecrust quality

Scaliness.

Unreliability of feminine girl rounding aged cattle

Torches

Burning or flaming torches

Lighted torches

Torches

Flambe

Spanish gypsy dances

Dances accompanied with guitar music

Jet engine failures

Easily set on fire

Prone to combustion

Easily ignited

Flanerie

Donned a plaid shirt, perhaps

FLANNEL to cover with a soft fabric

Positively nervous (wordplay)

Northerner caught in lie is nervous

Easily upset

Flappy

A small cube that contains four flashbulbs and that rotates automatically to the next unused bulb when a picture is taken with the camera to which it is attached.

Wearing the most bling, say

Most gaudy, being faithless

Most dazzling

FLASH to emit a sudden burst of light

""A gas discharge tube used in an electronic flash to produce a brief, intense flash of light.""

Some screwdrivers

Montana tribe

Stout friends, about 50, who share digs

Home sharers

Are they still living together (wordplay)

On the canvas

Ten inflated and deflated

Pressed, rolled out

FLATTEN to make {flat=adj}

Praise somewhat dishonestly

Gratified the vanity of.

Praised apartment to deter alteration

Recent European in France is a sycophant

Toady uniform for Lawrence about right

One who praises somewhat dishonestly

Accommodation unlet - perhaps it's windy

Suffering from wind or gas

Removed fault fast when windy

Table settings

They show off flat and nurse shudders!

Ostentatious displayers.

Flaunty

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 15 H 12 O 2 , derived from flavone.""

Flavorer

Flavour

Flaxseed

Fleabane

Minute dog injuries (wordplay)

Takes off, admitting rather trivial 27s

Trifle; mark on skin

Fleawort

Steel dart dropped from aeroplane

Folds.

Fledgy

Just getting started

Young bird

Nest departer

Fleech

Most like a cumulus cloud

Swiftness, speed

Flemish

Flemish

Flench

Most in need of toning

Fleshing

Fleshly

""The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning.""

Herb is added to meat stews (wordplay)

Symbols of sin.

Hotbeds of hedonism

Arrow makers

Arrow-makers

Figure made with points

Flexagon

Adaptable working hours

Way of working with wire on one clock

A system of convenience in working hours

Customized work schedules

Flichter

Burnt with an unsteady light

Of light, shone unsteadily

Give tongue in what might be freed lightly

Flighty

Like the worst excuse

Flincher

Flinkite

Flinty

Adjective meaning resembling

Most coquettish

Flitter

Floatage

Floaty

Tufts of woolly hair - cell focus (anagram)

Flocky

Barrier to water

Scandal in the aftermath of a tsunami (wordplay)

Scandal involving Noah and the ark (wordplay)

Floorage

Do-nothing Congress (wordplay)

Hardly the Ritz

Cheap, cramped living quarters

Flopover

Floppy

Florence

""Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars. as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.""

Florigen

Flossy

Flouncy

Fish goes to the bottom to cross lake

Struggles clumsily

Is Florence flat below the South (wordplay)

FLOUR to cover with a finely ground meal or grain

Blooms in general

Flowerer

There's blooming little of them

Abounding with flowers.

Flowery

FLOWER to blossom or flourish

In bloom Writer (nonverbal)

Blooming humiliating supporting France

Wrong file edited out

Geranium holder (wordplay)

Plant in here

There are 24 down in there

(Physics / General Physics) an instrument that measures the rate of flow of a liquid or gas within a pipe or tube

""A layered deposit of calcium carbonate on rock where water has flowed or dripped, as on the walls of a cave.""

Vary irregularly, rise and fall

Waver, go this way and that

Shift back and forth

Fluency

Most superficial

Fluidise

Fluidise

Fluidize

""FLUIDIZE to make fluid, also FLUIDIFY, FLUIDISE""

Fluidize

The state of being flluid; fluidity.

At a loss

Confounded

Bewildered

Confuses

Fluorene