8-letter words containing a, f, e
- matfelon — knapweed
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- meatloaf — A dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- metafile — (graphics, file format) 1. An image file format for transport between different machines, often as a device independent bitmap. 2. A functional specification for encoding computer graphics for later display on some suitable device.
- metafont — A system for the design of raster-based alphabets by Donald Knuth. A companion to TeX.
- misframe — to frame wrongly
- moonface — a round and full face
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- mule-fat — a composite shrub, Baccharis viminea, of California, having willowlike leaves and clustered flowers, growing in riverbeds.
- nailfile — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- new face — Someone who is new in a particular public role can be referred to as a new face.
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- oak fern — a small woodland fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, of northern regions, having triangular, pinnate fronds that slant horizontally.
- oak leaf — the leaf of an oak tree
- off base — serving as or forming a base: The walls will need a base coat and two finishing coats.
- off year — a year without a major, especially presidential, election.
- off-base — located outside the perimeters of a military base: off-base housing for officers.
- off-beam — If you describe something or someone as off-beam, you mean that they are wrong or inaccurate.
- off-beat — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- off-peak — of, relating to, or during a period of less than maximum frequency, demand, intensity, or use: the off-peak travel season; off-peak train fares.
- off-year — An off-year is a year when no major political elections are held.
- offstage — off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience (opposed to onstage).
- old face — a type style that originated in the 18th century, characterized by little contrast between thick and thin strokes
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- outfable — to exceed in creating fables
- outfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outface.
- outfeast — to exceed in feasting
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- over-fat — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- overfall — A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.
- overfast — too fast
- overfear — to fear too much
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overleaf — on the other side of the page or sheet.
- ozenfant — Amédée [a-mey-dey] /a meɪˈdeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1966, French painter and writer, in the U.S. after 1938.
- pacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- paraffle — an extravagant display
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- perfecta — exacta.
- petaflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of 1015 floating-point operations a second