8-letter words containing a, f, s, t
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- mudflats — Plural form of mudflat.
- offstage — off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience (opposed to onstage).
- outfalls — Plural form of outfall.
- outfeast — to exceed in feasting
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- overfast — too fast
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- parts of — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- pressfat — a wine vat
- raftsman — a person who manages or is employed on a raft.
- refasten — to fasten again
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- safarist — a person on safari
- saltfish — salted cod
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- santa fé — a city in E Argentina.
- sea fret — a wet mist or haze coming inland from the sea
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea
- seacraft — the skills and knowledge of a sailor
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- sniff at — show contempt
- soft hat — a hat made from soft rather than stiff and structured materials
- softback — paperback book
- softball — a form of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a ball that is larger and softer than a baseball.
- softhead — a half-witted or silly person
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- spatfall — a mass of larvae on the sea bed
- staffage — all of the additional figures, animals and other items of ornamentation in a painted scene or landscape, as distinct from the main figures or elements of the composition
- staffing — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- staffman — staffer.
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- standoff — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- startful — tending to make sudden small involuntary movements of the body from fright or nerves, etc
- stedfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- stefanie — a female given name.
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- stratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine
- sufflate — to inflate.
- surf mat — a small inflatable rubber mattress used to ride on waves
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.