8-letter words containing l, e, a, f, i
- fraulein — an unmarried woman.
- freetail — a free-tailed bat.
- gadflies — Plural form of gadfly.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- gasfield — a subterranean area where natural gas is found
- giftable — suitable for a gift.
- hadfield — Sir Robert Abbott, 1858–1940, English metallurgist and industrialist.
- half-lie — something that a person says or writes that they know to be partly untrue
- half-pie — poorly planned or conceived
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfpipe — Alternative form of half-pipe.
- halftime — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- ill fame — bad reputation, especially in sexual matters.
- infernal — hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.
- inflamed — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- inflamer — (usually, figuratively) Something that inflames.
- inflames — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflame.
- inflated — distended with air or gas; swollen.
- inflater — A pump used to inflate tires.
- inflates — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- jalfrezi — A style of curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis.
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- kalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- keflavik — a town in SW Iceland, on the S shore of Faxa Bay: site of international airport.
- ladyfied — Simple past tense and past participle of ladyfy.
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- leafiest — Superlative form of leafy.
- leaflike — Having the form or other qualities of a leaf.
- 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.
- 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.
- lifecare — the long-term care of the health and welfare of someone, esp an elderly person within a residential community
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- lifemate — A companion for life.
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- liftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- liftgate — hatch2 (def 9b).
- makefile — Alternative spelling of make file.
- malefice — a wicked deed or enchantment
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- 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.
- 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.
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- 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.