8-letter words containing l, e, f
- calflike — resembling a calf
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- cat flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- cheekful — the quantity that can be held in or cover a cheek
- cheerful — Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in their behaviour.
- chelifer — Book-scorpion.
- chestful — Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
- clear of — If something or someone is a certain amount clear of a competitor, they are that amount ahead of them in a competition or race.
- clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- clubface — the face of a golf club
- clubfeet — Plural form of clubfoot.
- coalface — In a coal mine, the coalface is the part where the coal is being cut out of the rock.
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- copyleft — a form of licensing that imposes fewer restrictions on the use of a work than copyright
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- cuffless — having no cuff or cuffs
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- deepfelt — relating to a sincere or profound experience
- deer fly — any of several tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, the female of which is a vector of tularemia in deer, livestock, and humans.
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- deferral — Deferral means the same as deferment.
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- defilade — protection provided by obstacles against enemy crossfire from the rear, or observation
- defiling — Present participle of defile.
- deflated — having lost confidence, hope, or optimism
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflate.
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- deflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflect.
- deflexed — (of leaves, petals, etc) bent sharply outwards and downwards
- deflower — to despoil of beauty, innocence, etc; mar; violate
- defluent — running downwards
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- desulfur — to free from sulfur; desulfurize.
- devil of — (intensifier)