8-Letter Words Containing: FILA__

• the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• the stalk of a stamen

• a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

• a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current

• gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation

• rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction

• of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae

• delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)

• European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage

• related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria

• Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that live in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.

• a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread