8-letter words containing e, c, l
- esculent — Fit to be eaten; edible.
- escurial — Escorial
- especial — Better or greater than usual; special.
- eteocles — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta. He expelled his brother Polynices from Thebes; they killed each other in single combat when Polynices returned as leader of the Seven against Thebes
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- eucyclic — having the same number of leaves in each whorl
- 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.
- eustelic — Of or possessing a eustele.
- evocable — That can be evoked.
- exarchal — Of or relating to an exarch.
- excelled — Simple past tense and past participle of excel.
- exclaims — Plural form of exclaim.
- exclaves — Plural form of exclave.
- excluded — Deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group, or privilege.
- excludee — a person who has been excluded
- excluder — Something which excludes.
- excludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exclude.
- explicit — Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.
- 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.
- feckless — ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
- fecolith — A calcified fecal deposit.
- feculent — full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.
- felching — Present participle of felch.
- felicita — a female given name, form of Felicia.
- felicity — the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss: marital felicity.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fencible — Capable of being defended.
- fetlocks — Plural form of fetlock.
- ficklest — likely to change, especially due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
- fiercely — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- filchers — Plural form of filcher.
- 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).
- filicide — a person who kills his or her son or daughter.
- finchley — a residential district of N London, part of the Greater London borough of Barnet from 1965
- firecall — A call of fire alarm to a fire station.
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.
- firelock — a gun having a lock in which the priming is ignited by sparks struck from flint and steel, as the flintlock musket.