8-letter words containing f, o, l, i
- in folio — in the form or size of a folio
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- infolded — Simple past tense and past participle of infold.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- jetfoils — Plural form of jetfoil.
- kill off — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- kinfolks — Plural form of kinfolk.
- kinsfolk — Alternative spelling of kinfolk.
- laid-off — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leontief — Wassily [vah-see-lee] /vɑˈsi li/ (Show IPA), 1906–1999, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1973.
- lifeboat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- lifeform — Any specific living organism.
- lifehold — Land held by a life estate.
- lifelong — lasting or continuing through all or much of one's life: lifelong regret.
- lifesome — (poetic) animated; gay; lively; sprightly.
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- lift off — Aeronautics, Rocketry. the action of an aircraft in becoming airborne or of a rocket in rising from its launching site under its own power. the instant when such action occurs.
- liftoffs — Plural form of liftoff.
- lionfish — a brightly striped scorpionfish of the genus Pterois, especially P. volitans, of the Indo-Pacific region, having long, flamboyant, venomous spiny fins.
- live off — survive on, be supported by
- loaf tin — a tin that is used for baking bread
- 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.
- lyriform — shaped like a lyre.
- manifold — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
- milfoils — Plural form of milfoil.
- mofussil — (India) Originally, the regions of India outside the three w East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.
- moistful — loaded with or full of wetness or moisture
- nailfold — the fold of skin at the base of the fingernail
- ninefold — nine times as great or as much.
- noiseful — characterized by loud noise; noisy
- nonfinal — not final or decisive
- nonfluid — a substance that is not a fluid
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- octofoil — double quatrefoil.
- off-line — Computers. operating independently of, or disconnected from, an associated computer.
- official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- oil find — the discovery of oil deposits underground or under the sea
- oilfield — an area in which there are large deposits of oil.
- oilfired — (of central heating) using oil as fuel
- oilproof — resistant to oil
- 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