8-letter words containing f, e, y, l
- flunkeys — Plural form of flunkey (alternative spelling of flunkies).
- flustery — flustered or inclined to become flustered
- fluttery — fluttering; apt to flutter.
- fly line — a line for use in fly-fishing.
- fly page — banner
- fly-over — overpass across a motorway
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flyovers — Plural form of flyover.
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flysheet — A tract or circular of two or four pages.
- flyspeck — a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly.
- flywheel — a heavy disk or wheel rotating on a shaft so that its momentum gives almost uniform rotational speed to the shaft and to all connected machinery.
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- formerly — in time past; in an earlier period or age; previously: a custom formerly observed.
- frenzily — in a frenzied or frantic manner
- friendly — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frozenly — While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- futilely — incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to force-feed the sick horse was futile.
- giftedly — In a gifted manner.
- greenfly — an aphid, Coloradoa rufomaculata, that is an important pest of chrysanthemums.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- heel fly — cattle grub.
- honeyful — full of honey
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- housefly — a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- ladyfied — Simple past tense and past participle of ladyfy.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- reflexly — in a reflex manner
- relexify — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- ruefully — causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable: a rueful plight.
- ryeflour — a flour made from rye
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- stellify — to change or be changed into a star
- stonefly — any of numerous dull-colored primitive aquatic insects of the order Plecoptera, having a distinctive flattened body shape: a major food source for game fish, especially bass and trout, which makes them popular as models for fishing flies.
- synfuels — synthetic fuel.
- tent fly — fly1 (def 22).
- test-fly — to fly (an aircraft or spacecraft) for the evaluation of performance.
- tube fly — an artificial fly with the body tied on a hollow tube that can slide up the leader when a fish takes
- unsafely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- unwifely — not like a wife; not characteristic or appropriate of a wife
- whitefly — any of several plant-sucking, homopterous insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having the body and wings dusted with a white, powdery wax, and being widely distributed chiefly in tropical regions where they are often serious crop pests, as Dialeurodes citri (citrus whitefly) commonly occurring on citrus trees, and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (greenhouse whitefly) inhabiting greenhouses.
- wilf hey — (person) The person who originally developed Report Program Generator and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage out). In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was writing for PC Plus magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's programmers workshop amongst other things. He died on 2007-01-01 after a long illness.