8-letter words containing t, e, l, f
- leaf tea — tea sold in the form of leaves, rather than in tea bags
- leafiest — Superlative form of leafy.
- leaflets — Plural form of leaflet.
- left out — omitted, forgotten
- lefthand — Alternative form of left-hand.
- leftists — Plural form of leftist.
- leftmost — Farthest to the left.
- leftover — Usually, leftovers. food remaining uneaten at the end of a meal, especially when saved for later use.
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- leftwing — Alternative spelling of left-wing.
- leontief — Wassily [vah-see-lee] /vɑˈsi li/ (Show IPA), 1906–1999, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1973.
- life net — a strong net or the like held by firefighters or others to catch persons jumping from a burning building.
- lifebelt — A life preserver in the shape of a belt.
- 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.
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- lifemate — A companion for life.
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- lifetime — the time that the life of someone or something continues; the term of a life: peace within our lifetime.
- liftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- liftgate — hatch2 (def 9b).
- lintfree — Free of lint.
- loft bed — a bed raised, as on supports, high enough overhead to allow the use of the floor area below for various purposes, as for part of a living room
- loftiest — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- loftless — (of a building) not having a loft
- loftlike — Resembling a loft.
- lovefest — (informal) An effusive exchange of good will.
- lutefisk — dried cod tenderized by soaking in lye, which is rinsed out before cooking.
- matfelon — knapweed
- meatloaf — A dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
- 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.
- mule-fat — a composite shrub, Baccharis viminea, of California, having willowlike leaves and clustered flowers, growing in riverbeds.
- new left — (sometimes lowercase) a radical leftist political movement active especially during the 1960s and 1970s, composed largely of college students and young intellectuals whose goals included racial equality, de-escalation of the arms race, nonintervention in foreign affairs, and other major changes in the political, economic, social, and educational systems.
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- outfable — to exceed in creating fables
- outfield — Baseball. the part of the field beyond the diamond. the positions played by the right, center, and left fielders. the outfielders considered as a group (contrasted with infield).
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- outflies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outfly.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- petaflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of 1015 floating-point operations a second
- plateful — the amount that a plate will hold.
- refilter — to filter again
- refluent — flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
- riftless — without rift
- scentful — full of scent or odour; fragrant
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea
- self-set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- slugfest — a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stellify — to change or be changed into a star