8-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- especial — Better or greater than usual; special.
- eteocles — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta. He expelled his brother Polynices from Thebes; they killed each other in single combat when Polynices returned as leader of the Seven against Thebes
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- eustelic — Of or possessing a eustele.
- exclaims — Plural form of exclaim.
- exclaves — Plural form of exclave.
- excludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exclude.
- faceless — without a face: a faceless apparition.
- fascicle — a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- feckless — ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fetlocks — Plural form of fetlock.
- ficklest — likely to change, especially due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
- filchers — Plural form of filcher.
- flexcash — flexdollars.
- flickers — Plural form of flicker.
- flinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flinch.
- flitches — Plural form of flitch.
- floccose — Botany. consisting of or bearing woolly tufts or long soft hairs.
- floscule — a floret; a single blossom of a composite flower
- flounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounce.
- fluerics — fluidics.
- flyspeck — a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly.
- fo'c'sle — a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- forclose — Alternative form of foreclose.
- freckles — Plural form of freckle.
- frickles — Plural form of frickle.
- fuculose — (carbohydrate) A deoxysugar related to tagatose.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- glucides — any of various organic compounds that consist of or contain a carbohydrate.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- hecklers — Plural form of heckler.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- herschel — Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, English astronomer.
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- inclines — Plural form of incline.
- inclosed — enclose.
- incloser — Archaic form of encloser.