8-letter words containing l, o, r, e, i
- coverlid — coverlet
- creolise — (of a pidgin language) to become the native language of a speech community
- creolist — a student of creole languages
- creolize — to make (a language) become a creole
- cryolite — a white or colourless mineral consisting of a fluoride of sodium and aluminium in monoclinic crystalline form: used in the production of aluminium, glass, and enamel. Formula: Na3AlF6
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- disenrol — to remove from a register
- dolerite — a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- elicitor — A person or thing that elicits.
- elsinore — Helsingør
- elytroid — like an elytron
- epilator — An electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.
- erodible — Capable of eroding.
- erosible — able to be eroded
- erotical — (obsolete) Erotic.
- escorial — a village in central Spain, northwest of Madrid: site of an architectural complex containing a monastery, palace, and college, built by Philip II between 1563 and 1584
- evildoer — A person who commits profoundly immoral and malevolent deeds.
- exordial — Of or relating to an exordium, beginning or introduction.
- failover — A method of protecting computer systems from failure, in which standby equipment automatically takes over when the main system fails.
- fillmore — Millard [mil-erd] /ˈmɪl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1800–74, 13th president of the United States 1850–53.
- filmgoer — a person who attends motion-picture showings.
- firebolt — A missile of fire.
- firelock — a gun having a lock in which the priming is ignited by sparks struck from flint and steel, as the flintlock musket.
- firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
- floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
- florigen — a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- flossier — Comparative form of flossy.
- fluoride — a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF.
- fluorine — the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.
- fluorite — a common mineral, calcium fluoride, CaF 2 , occurring in green, blue, purple, yellow, or colorless crystals, usually in cubes: the principal source of fluorine, used also as a flux in metallurgy and for ornament.
- folivore — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- folksier — Comparative form of folksy.
- for life — for the rest of one's life
- forcible — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
- forelift — to lift up in front
- forelimb — a front limb of an animal.
- foremilk — colostrum.
- foresail — the lowermost sail on a foremast.
- forhaile — to distress
- forklike — resembling a fork
- frailero — an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
- frijoles — any bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the kidney bean, the seeds of which are used for food in Mexico, in the southwestern U.S., etc.
- froglike — any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- geraniol — a colorless or pale-yellow terpene alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, with a geraniumlike odor, found in rose oil, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in perfumes and flavors.
- gingerol — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric compounds responsible for the heat of ginger.
- girasole — an opal that reflects light in a bright luminous glow.
- gloomier — Comparative form of gloomy.
- gloriole — a halo, nimbus, or aureole.