8-letter words containing b, f
- beefcake — Attractive men with large muscles can be referred to as beefcake.
- beefless — not containing beef, without beef
- beefwood — any of various trees that produce very hard wood, esp the Australian tree Casuarina equisetifolia, widely planted in warm regions
- beerfest — a beer festival
- befallen — to happen or occur.
- befinger — to finger all over
- befinned — having fins
- beflower — to decorate with flowers
- befouled — to make dirty or filthy; soil; defile; sully: a bird that befouls its own nest.
- befriend — If you befriend someone, especially someone who is lonely or far from home, you make friends with them.
- befringe — to decorate with a fringe
- befuddle — If something befuddles you, it confuses your mind or thoughts.
- belfried — with a belfry
- bellyful — as much as one wants or can eat
- bemuffle — to muffle, wrap up warmly
- benefact — to be a benefactor to
- benefice — an endowed Church office yielding an income to its holder; a Church living
- benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.
- benfleet — a town in SE England, in S Essex on an inlet of the Thames estuary. Pop: 48 539 (2001)
- bergfall — an avalanche
- best fit — (algorithm) A resource allocation scheme (usually for memory). Best Fit allocates resources in a way that optimises some parameter. Alternative schemes such as first fit or random allocation are likely to be quicker but sub-optimal in use of resources. For example, when allocating a new block of memory from a pool of free blocks (a heap), one might choose the smallest space which is big enough. This would leave larger spaces free to satisfy larger requests and reduce fragmentation of the remaining free space.
- bid fair — to seem probable
- bifacial — having two faces or surfaces
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- biforked — two-pronged
- big fish — If you describe someone as a big fish, you believe that they are powerful or important in some way.
- big five — the five countries considered to be the major world powers. In the period immediately following World War II, the US, Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and France were regarded as the Big Five
- big foot — a very large, hairy, humanoid creature reputed to inhabit wilderness areas of the U.S. and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.
- billfish — any of various fishes having elongated jaws, esp any fish of the family Istiophoridae, such as the spearfish and marlin
- billfold — A billfold is a small flat folded case, usually made of leather or plastic, where you can keep banknotes and credit cards.
- bird flu — Bird flu is a virus which can be transmitted from chickens, ducks, and other birds to people.
- birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
- birdfeed — food for birds
- birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- blackfly — a black aphid, Aphis fabae, that infests beans, sugar beet, and other plants
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- blissful — A blissful situation or period of time is one in which you are extremely happy.
- bloodfin — a silvery red-finned South American freshwater fish, Aphyocharax rubripinnis: a popular aquarium fish: family Characidae (characins)
- blow fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
- blow off — If you blow something off, you ignore it or choose not to deal with it.
- blow-fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- blue flu — a sickout, esp. by policemen
- blue fox — a variety of the arctic fox that has a pale grey winter coat and is bred for its fur
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluffing — to mislead by a display of strength, self-confidence, or the like: He bluffed me into believing that he was a doctor.
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes