7-letter words containing a, f
- baffies — slippers
- baffing — to strike the ground with a club in making a stroke.
- baffled — lacking in understanding
- baffler — Something that causes one to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle.
- baffles — Plural form of baffle.
- bailiff — A bailiff is a law officer who makes sure that the decisions of a court are obeyed. Bailiffs can take a person's furniture or possessions away if the person owes money.
- bakeoff — a baking competition
- balafon — A large xylophone having hollow gourds as resonators, used in West African music.
- baleful — Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
- balfour — Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour. 1848–1930, British Conservative statesman: prime minister (1902–05); foreign secretary (1916–19)
- baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
- banoffi — Alternative spelling of banoffee.
- baranof — island in Alexander Archipelago, Alas.: c. 1,600 sq mi (4,144 sq km): largest city, Sitka
- barefit — barefooted
- barfing — Present participle of barf.
- barfish — A vern yellow bass, Morone mississippiensis.
- bashful — Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- bateful — (obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- batfish — any angler of the family Ogcocephalidae, having a flattened scaleless body and moving on the sea floor by means of fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
- batfowl — to catch birds by temporarily blinding them with light
- beatify — When the Catholic church beatifies someone who is dead, it declares officially that they were a holy person, usually as the first step towards making them a saint.
- bedfast — bedridden
- bedwarf — to greatly hamper the growth of
- beefalo — a cross between a domestic cow and a buffalo, technically one that is three-eighths buffalo and five-eighths cow, intended for beef production
- befalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befall.
- belfast — the capital of Northern Ireland, a port on Belfast Lough in Belfast district, Co Antrim and Co Down: became the centre of Irish Protestantism and of the linen industry in the 17th century; seat of the Northern Ireland assembly and executive. Pop: 281 000 (2011 est)
- biafran — of or relating to Biafra or its inhabitants
- bifilar — having two parallel threads, as in the suspension of certain measuring instruments
- bifocal — having two different focuses
- biofact — an item of biological information
- boatful — an amount or number that could be carried by a boat
- boffola — a particularly funny joke
- braford — one of a breed of beef cattle, developed in the southwestern U.S. from Brahman and Hereford stock, especially well adapted to sparse grazing and a hot, humid environment.
- buffalo — A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
- by half — If you increase something by half, half of the original amount is added to it. If you decrease it by half, half of the original amount is taken away from it.
- caffein — a white, crystalline, bitter alkaloid, C 8 H 10 N 4 O 2 , usually derived from coffee or tea: used in medicine chiefly as a nervous system stimulant.
- caffila — a caravan train
- cafileh — Alternative form of cafila.
- caftans — Plural form of caftan.
- cageful — an amount which fills a cage to capacity
- caitiff — a cowardly or base person
- calcify — to convert or be converted into lime
- caprify — to induce (a fig) to ripen
- carafes — Plural form of carafe.
- cardiff — the capital of Wales, situated in the southeast, in Cardiff county borough: formerly an important port; seat of the Welsh assembly (1999); university (1883). Pop: 346 100 (2011)
- care of — at the address of: written on envelopes
- careful — If you are careful, you give serious attention to what you are doing, in order to avoid harm, damage, or mistakes. If you are careful to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- carfare — the fare that a passenger is charged for a ride on a bus, etc
- carifta — Caribbean Free Trade Area
- carnify — (esp of lung tissue, as the result of pneumonia) to be altered so as to resemble skeletal muscle