8-letter words containing a, f
- claw off — to avoid the dangers of (a lee shore or other hazard) by beating
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clear of — If something or someone is a certain amount clear of a competitor, they are that amount ahead of them in a competition or race.
- clubface — the face of a golf club
- coalface — In a coal mine, the coalface is the part where the coal is being cut out of the rock.
- coalfish — a dark-coloured gadoid food fish, Pollachius virens, occurring in northern seas
- cofactor — a number associated with an element in a square matrix, equal to the determinant of the matrix formed by removing the row and column in which the element appears from the given determinant
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- confocal — having a common focus or common foci
- cornflag — a gladiolus, any iridaceous plant of the genus Gladiolus
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- craftier — Comparative form of crafty.
- craftily — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cragfast — stranded or stuck on a crag
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- cream of — creamed purée of
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- daffodil — A daffodil is a yellow spring flower with a central part shaped like a tube and a long stem.
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- damnfool — (informal) Contemptibly foolish.
- damp off — (of plants, seedlings, shoots, etc) to be affected by damping off
- dandriff — Archaic spelling of dandruff.
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- dartford — a town in SE England, in NW Kent. Pop: 56 818 (2001)
- dash off — If you dash off to a place, you go there very quickly.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
- deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- defanged — to remove the fangs of: to defang a snake.
- defatted — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- defaults — Plural form of default.