8-letter words containing a, f, e
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- plateful — the amount that a plate will hold.
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prefaded — given a faded or worn look beforehand (as of jeans, etc)
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- preflame — of the period before combustion
- prefrank — to frank in advance
- pressfat — a wine vat
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- race off — to entice (a person) away with a view to seduction
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- rafferty — confused; disorganized.
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- rake off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- rake-off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- rarefied — extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted: the rarefied atmosphere of a scholarly symposium.
- ratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- reaffirm — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- red flag — communist symbol
- red-flag — to mark or draw attention to for a particular purpose: The department has red-flagged the most urgent repair work to be done.
- redefeat — to defeat again
- reefable — (of a sail) able to be reefed
- refasten — to fasten again
- referral — an act of referring; the state of being referred.
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- repacify — to pacify again
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- safe sex — sexual activities in which precautions have been taken, as by the use of a condom, to minimize the chances of spreading or contracting a sexually transmitted disease.
- safeness — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- salified — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- santa fé — a city in E Argentina.
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scarface — a 1983 cult gangster film written by Oliver Stone, directed by Brian de Palma, and starring Al Pacino.
- sea calf — harbor seal.
- sea fire — a bioluminescent glow produced by phosphorescent marine organisms.
- sea fish — a fish that lives in salt water
- sea foam — the foam of the sea.
- sea fret — a wet mist or haze coming inland from the sea
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea