8-letter words containing g, e, f
- giftable — suitable for a gift.
- giftedly — In a gifted manner.
- giftware — china, crystal, or other items suitable for gifts.
- giraffes — Plural form of giraffe.
- give off — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- glassfet — /glas'fet/ [Analogy with MOSFET] (or "firebottle") A humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube.
- gleefull — Archaic form of gleeful.
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goffered — Simple past tense and past participle of goffer.
- goodwife — Chiefly Scot. the mistress of a household.
- goofiest — ridiculous; silly; wacky; nutty: a goofy little hat.
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- graftage — the art or practice of inserting a part of one plant into another plant in such a way that the two will unite and continue their growth.
- grafters — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- grateful — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- greatful — Misspelling of grateful.
- greenfly — an aphid, Coloradoa rufomaculata, that is an important pest of chrysanthemums.
- greffier — (obsolete) A registrar or recorder; a notary.
- grenfell — Sir Wilfred Thomason [tom-uh-suh n] /ˈtɒm ə sən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1940, English physician and missionary in Labrador and Newfoundland.
- grey fox — a greyish American fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, inhabiting arid and woody regions from S North America to N South America
- griefful — (archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
- griefing — Present participle of grief.
- grifters — Plural form of grifter.
- guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
- guileful — insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
- gulflike — Resembling a gulf or some aspect of one.
- gulfweed — a coarse, olive-brown, branching seaweed, Sargassum bacciferum, common in the Gulf Stream and tropical American seas, characterized by numerous berrylike air vessels.
- gunfires — Plural form of gunfire.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- highlife — an expensive, glamorous, or elegant style of living.
- hog fuel — wood chips or shavings, residue from sawmills, etc., used for fuel, landfill, animal feed, and surfacing paths and running tracks.
- infringe — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
- ingulfed — Simple past tense and past participle of ingulf.
- la farge — John, 1835–1910, U.S. painter, stained-glass designer, and writer.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- lagerlof — Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) [sel-mah awt-ti-lee-ah-nah loo-vi-sah] /ˈsɛl mɑ ˌɔt tɪ liˈɑ nɑ ˈlu vɪˌsɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.
- leaf gap — (in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- leftwing — Alternative spelling of left-wing.
- liefling — (South Africa) One held as lief or dear; a darling.
- lifelong — lasting or continuing through all or much of one's life: lifelong regret.
- liftgate — hatch2 (def 9b).
- log file — a file that records all the activity that has occurred on a system
- log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
- longleaf — A longleaf pine, Pirus palustris, or the wood of this tree.
- mafeking — a town in N Republic of South Africa: former administrative seat of Bechuanaland; besieged for 217 days by Boers 1899–1900.
- mafikeng — a town in N South Africa: besieged by the Boers for 217 days (1899–1900) during the second Boer War: administrative headquarters of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland until 1965, although outside its borders. Pop: 23 650 (2001)
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.