5-letter words containing a, f
- nakfa — a monetary unit of Eritrea, equal to 100 cents.
- nyaff — a small or contemptible person
- ofays — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- offal — the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible by human beings; carrion.
- ofgas — Office of Gas Supply: merged with Offer in 1999 to form Ofgem
- oflag — a World War II German internment camp for war prisoners of officer rank.
- ofwat — Office of Water Services: a government body set up in 1989 to regulate the activities of the water companies in England and Wales, and to protect the interests of their consumers
- oxfam — Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
- pfalz — German name of The Palatinate.
- pilaf — a Middle Eastern dish consisting of sautéed, seasoned rice steamed in bouillon, sometimes with poultry, meat or shellfish.
- pofac — A subset of Fortran.
- quaff — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- raffe — a triangular sail set in the manner of a square sail above the uppermost yard of a topsail schooner.
- rafia — a derogatory term for the Irish Republican Army, when considered as a source of organized crime
- rafvr — Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
- refal — Recursive Functional Algorithmic Language
- rnzaf — Royal New Zealand Air Force
- rtfaq — (Usenet, primarily written, by analogy with RTFM) Read the FAQ! An exhortation that the person addressed ought to read the newsgroup's FAQ list before posting questions.
- s afr — South Africa
- safar — the second month of the Muslim calendar.
- safer — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- sarfu — South African Rugby Football Union
- scaff — food
- scanf — The C library routine that reads data from the standard input stream stdin into the locations given by each entry in its argument list. The first argument is a format string which controls interpretation of the input and each subsequent argument points to a variable with a type that corresponds to a type specifier in the format-string.
- scarf — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- shaef — Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
- shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- sheaf — one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
- skaif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- snafu — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- snarf — to eat quickly and voraciously; scarf (often followed by down or up).
- sofar — a system for determining a position at sea by exploding a charge under water and measuring the time the shock waves take to reach three widely separated shore stations at known distances from each other.
- sofia — a republic in SE Europe. 42,800 sq. mi. (110,850 sq. km). Capital: Sofia.
- softa — a Turkish Muslim theological student.
- staff — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- sulfa — related chemically to sulfanilamide.
- swarf — an accumulation of fine particles of metal or abrasive cut or ground from work by a machine tool or grinder.
- taffy — a chewy candy made of sugar or molasses boiled down, often with butter, nuts, etc.
- tafia — a type of rum made in Haiti from lower grades of molasses, refuse sugar, or the like.
- trayf — Judaism. tref.
- vafio — an archaeological site in S Greece, in Peloponnesus.
- waaaf — Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
- wafer — a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
- wafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waft.
- wafty — Tending to waft; gaseous, insubstantial.
- waifs — Plural form of waif.
- waift — Obsolete form of waif.
- waify — Characteristic of a waif; thin.
- wbfca — Whitley Bay Football Club Academy
- wfbas — West Florida Baptist Academy Sports