8-letter words containing f, i, e
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- biforked — two-pronged
- big five — the five countries considered to be the major world powers. In the period immediately following World War II, the US, Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and France were regarded as the Big Five
- birdfeed — food for birds
- birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- box file — a rigid file which opens like a box, usually made of strong cardboard and able to hold a large quantity of documents
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- c-refine — A preprocessor for C and languages with similar syntax by Lutz Prechelt <[email protected]>. C-Refine allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. Version 3.0 is available from comp.sources.reviewed archives. It is highly portable and has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga.
- caffeine — Caffeine is a chemical substance found in coffee, tea, and cocoa, which affects your brain and body and makes you more active.
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- calflike — resembling a calf
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- carnifex — an executioner
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
- chelifer — Book-scorpion.
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- chiefery — the responsibility and lands belonging to an Irish chief
- chiefess — a chief who is female
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- citified — having the customs, manners, or dress of city people
- cityfied — made into a city.
- clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- codified — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- codifier — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- codifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of codify.
- coffined — Simple past tense and past participle of coffin.
- coiffeur — a hairdresser
- coiffure — A person's coiffure is their hairstyle.
- coinfect — to infect (a person or animal) at the same time as another infection
- comfiest — comfortable.
- confetti — Confetti is small pieces of coloured paper that people throw over the bride and bridegroom at a wedding.
- confided — Simple past tense and past participle of confide.
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- confinee — a person held in confinement.
- confiner — One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- confines — limits; boundaries