8-letter words containing a, l, c, e
- eulachon — A small edible fish of North America, Thaleichthys pacificus; the candlefish.
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- evocable — That can be evoked.
- exarchal — Of or relating to an exarch.
- exclaims — Plural form of exclaim.
- exclaves — Plural form of exclave.
- faceable — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- faceless — without a face: a faceless apparition.
- facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- facemail — a computer program which uses an electronically generated face to deliver messages on screen
- facepalm — the gesture of placing the palm of one's hand across the face, as to express embarrassment, frustration, disbelief, etc. (often used as an interjection): She read the post and comments and did a facepalm. Okay, that was dumb—facepalm!
- facilely — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- falconer — a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
- fascicle — a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- fat cell — a cell in loose connective tissue that is specialized for the synthesis and storage of fat.
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- felicita — a female given name, form of Felicia.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- filecard — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- firecall — A call of fire alarm to a fire station.
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flamenco — a style of dancing, characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies, that is strongly rhythmic and involves vigorous actions, as clapping the hands and stamping the feet.
- flexcash — flexdollars.
- focalize — Focus (something), in particular.
- fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
- fuel-can — A derogatory term for the Atari Falcon.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- furculae — Plural form of furcula.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- glaciate — to cover with ice or glaciers.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.