8-letter words containing f, e, y
- 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.
- identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- jeffreys — Francis ("Lord Jeffrey") 1773–1850, Scottish jurist, editor, and critic.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- keffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- 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.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- nyet.gif — (security) A file that crackers from Russia tied to upload to many web sites in 2014 to test whether the victim's web server software was configured to accepted HTTP PUT requests.
- off year — a year without a major, especially presidential, election.
- off-year — An off-year is a year when no major political elections are held.
- pennyfee — a small payment, whether literally of the value of a penny or not
- pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
- prettify — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- rafferty — confused; disorganized.
- re-edify — to edify again or rebuild
- recodify — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- refinery — an establishment for refining something, as metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- 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.
- remodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- renotify — to notify again
- repacify — to pacify again
- repurify — to purify again, make pure again
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- reverify — to verify again
- revivify — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- 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.
- spoofery — good-humored mockery or teasing.
- ste.-foy — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec.
- 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.
- system f — polymorphic lambda-calculus
- tent fly — fly1 (def 22).
- test-fly — to fly (an aircraft or spacecraft) for the evaluation of performance.
- trendify — to render fashionable; remodel in line with current trends
- tube fly — an artificial fly with the body tied on a hollow tube that can slide up the leader when a fish takes
- typeface — face (defs 19b, c).
- typified — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.