8-letter words containing l, a, f, r, e
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- life car — a watertight container used in marine rescue operations, suspended from a hawser and hauled back and forth between a stranded or wrecked vessel and the shore.
- lifecare — the long-term care of the health and welfare of someone, esp an elderly person within a residential community
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- overfall — A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overleaf — on the other side of the page or sheet.
- paraffle — an extravagant display
- pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- preflame — of the period before combustion
- red flag — communist symbol
- red-flag — to mark or draw attention to for a particular purpose: The department has red-flagged the most urgent repair work to be done.
- reefable — (of a sail) able to be reefed
- referral — an act of referring; the state of being referred.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- seafloor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- taffarel — taffrail.
- tafferel — taffrail.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- tradeful — (of shops etc) full of trade
- unflared — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- warfield — David, 1866–1951, U.S. actor.
- weariful — full of weariness; fatigued; exhausted.
- wellfare — Obsolete form of welfare.
- wreakful — (obsolete) Vengeful; angry, furious.
- yearnful — Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.