8-letter words containing f, l, i, e
- lifelike — resembling or simulating real life: a lifelike portrait.
- lifeline — a line, fired across a ship or boat, by means of which a hawser for a breeches buoy may be hauled aboard.
- lifelong — lasting or continuing through all or much of one's life: lifelong regret.
- lifemate — A companion for life.
- lifeness — (rare, philosophy) The state or quality of having a life.
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- lifesome — (poetic) animated; gay; lively; sprightly.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifetime — the time that the life of someone or something continues; the term of a life: peace within our lifetime.
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- liftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- liftgate — hatch2 (def 9b).
- like fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- lintfree — Free of lint.
- live off — survive on, be supported by
- lobefins — Plural form of lobefin.
- loftiest — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- loftlike — Resembling a loft.
- log file — a file that records all the activity that has occurred on a system
- log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
- low life — People sometimes use low life to refer in a disapproving way to people who are involved in criminal, dishonest, or immoral activities, or to these activities.
- low-life — a despicable person, especially a degenerate or immoral person.
- lowlifes — Plural form of lowlife.
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- lutefisk — dried cod tenderized by soaking in lye, which is rinsed out before cooking.
- makefile — Alternative spelling of make file.
- malefice — a wicked deed or enchantment
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- medfield — a city in E Massachusetts.
- medflies — Plural form of medfly.
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- metafile — (graphics, file format) 1. An image file format for transport between different machines, often as a device independent bitmap. 2. A functional specification for encoding computer graphics for later display on some suitable device.
- midfield — the middle area of a sports field, especially the area midway between the two goals.
- midlifer — a middle-aged person
- misfield — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- misfiled — Simple past tense and past participle of misfile.
- nailfile — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- new life — fresh start, reinvented existence
- nieveful — a fistful, the quantity that may be contained in a closed fist
- niflheim — a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.
- ninefold — nine times as great or as much.
- noiseful — characterized by loud noise; noisy
- nuffield — William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield. 1877–1963, English motorcar manufacturer and philanthropist. He endowed Nuffield College at Oxford (1937) and the Nuffield Foundation (1943), a charitable trust for the furtherance of medicine and education
- off-line — Computers. operating independently of, or disconnected from, an associated computer.
- oilfield — an area in which there are large deposits of oil.
- oilfired — (of central heating) using oil as fuel
- oldfield — Berna Eli [bur-nuh] /ˈbɜr nə/ (Show IPA), ("Barney") 1878–1946, U.S. racing-car driver.
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- olefinic — Characteristic of, or containing olefins.