8-letter words containing f, l, y
- sand fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sand-fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- shoo-fly — a child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
- silicify — to convert or be converted into silica
- simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- sinfully — characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked: a sinful life.
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- solidify — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- 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.
- stultify — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- sulfinyl — containing the sulfinyl group; thionyl.
- sulfonyl — sulfuryl.
- sulfuryl — containing the sulfuryl group, SO 2 , as sulfuryl chloride; sulfonyl.
- synfuels — synthetic fuel.
- tent fly — fly1 (def 22).
- test-fly — to fly (an aircraft or spacecraft) for the evaluation of performance.
- toplofty — condescending; haughty.
- tube fly — an artificial fly with the body tied on a hollow tube that can slide up the leader when a fish takes
- unfairly — not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.
- unfaulty — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- unflashy — not flashy
- unjoyful — not joyful
- 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.
- wilfully — willful.
- woefully — affected with, characterized by, or indicating woe: woeful melodies.
- wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- yearnful — Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.
- yourself — Used to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause.
- youthful — characterized by youth; young.