8-letter words containing o, i, l, e
- 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.
- focalize — Focus (something), in particular.
- foilable — to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk: Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government.
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliages — Plural form of foliage.
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- folivore — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- folklife — the everyday life of the common people, especially of a particular region, country, or period: 18th-century New England folklife.
- folklike — of the nature of folk
- folksier — Comparative form of folksy.
- follicle — Anatomy. a small cavity, sac, or gland. one of the small ovarian sacs containing an immature ovum; Graafian follicle.
- footlike — resembling a foot
- 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.
- fuel oil — an oil used for fuel, especially one used as a substitute for coal, as crude petroleum.
- galenoid — relating to or resembling galena
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gasoline — a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- gelibolu — a peninsula in NW European Turkey, extending between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles. 50 miles (80 km) long.
- gelsolin — an actin-binding protein that modulates actin filament length and gelation, influencing cell locomotion and structure, endocytosis, etc.
- geologic — of, relating to, or based on geology.
- 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.
- glossier — Comparative form of glossy.
- glossies — Plural form of glossy.
- go-devil — a flexible, jointed apparatus forced through a pipeline to free it from obstructions.
- goatlike — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- goidelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- goldsize — an adhesive used to fix gold leaf to a surface
- googlies — Plural form of googly.
- gottlieb — Adolph, 1903–74, U.S. painter.
- gyrolite — calcium silicate hydroxide in a hydrated form
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.