8-letter words containing f, l, e, c
- 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.
- 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.
- flecking — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- flection — the act of bending.
- fleecier — Comparative form of fleecy.
- fleecing — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- fletched — Simple past tense and past participle of fletch.
- fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- flexcash — flexdollars.
- flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flickers — Plural form of flicker.
- flickery — Seeming to flicker; unsteady.
- flinched — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
- flincher — One who flinches.
- flinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flinch.
- flitches — Plural form of flitch.
- floccose — Botany. consisting of or bearing woolly tufts or long soft hairs.
- floccule — something resembling a small flock or tuft of wool.
- flockbed — a bed with a mattress stuffed with wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or the like.
- florence — Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
- floscule — a floret; a single blossom of a composite flower
- flounced — Simple past tense and past participle of flounce.
- flounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounce.
- fluerics — fluidics.
- flyspeck — a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly.
- fo'c'sle — a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- focalize — Focus (something), in particular.
- follicle — Anatomy. a small cavity, sac, or gland. one of the small ovarian sacs containing an immature ovum; Graafian follicle.
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forceful — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcible — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
- forclose — Alternative form of foreclose.