8-letter words containing d, f, a
- favelado — a person who lives in a favela.
- favoured — Treated or regarded with partiality.
- featured — made a feature or highlight; given prominence: a featured article; a featured actor.
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- fedayeen — a member of an Arab commando group operating especially against Israel.
- federacy — a confederacy.
- federals — Plural form of federal.
- federate — federated; allied.
- feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- feedable — to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
- feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- feedbags — Plural form of feedbag.
- feedyard — an area where cattle are kept and fed when being fattened for market
- feel bad — feel guilty
- feel-bad — causing or characterized by feelings of unhappiness or depression
- feijoada — a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- feldspar — any of a group of minerals, principally aluminosilicates of potassium, sodium, and calcium, characterized by two cleavages at nearly right angles: one of the most important constituents of igneous rocks.
- fellated — to perform fellatio on.
- fenagled — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- fenlands — Plural form of fenland.
- ferndale — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- fete day — a festival day.
- feudally — In a feudal manner.
- fidayeen — Plural form of fidayee.
- fiducial — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- filander — a former name for the pademelon, a small wallaby of the genus Thylogale
- filariid — of or relating to filariae.
- filecard — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- filiated — Simple past tense and past participle of filiate.
- filmcard — microfiche.
- filmland — filmdom.
- finagled — Simple past tense and past participle of finagle.
- financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- findable — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- finedraw — (transitive) To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
- firdausi — (Abul Qasim Mansu or Hasan) 932–1020, Persian poet.
- fireband — A band or bond forged by fire.
- firedamp — a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- fireward — (obsolete) a fire chief.
- flag day — June 14, the anniversary of the day (June 14, 1777) when Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag of the United States.
- flagstad — Kirsten Marie [kur-stuh n muh-ree;; Norwegian khish-tuh n mah-ree-uh,, khir-stuh n] /ˈkɜr stən məˈri;; Norwegian ˈxɪʃ tən mɑˈri ə,, ˈxɪr stən/ (Show IPA), 1895–1962, Norwegian operatic soprano.
- flambeed — Also, flambéed [flahm-beyd] /flɑmˈbeɪd/ (Show IPA). (of food) served in flaming liquor, especially brandy: steak flambé.
- flancard — a piece of armour covering a horse's flank
- flanders — a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the adjacent parts of N France and SW Netherlands.
- flatbeds — Plural form of flatbed.
- flathead — any of several scorpaenoid fishes of the family Platycephalidae, chiefly inhabiting waters of the Indo-Pacific region and used for food.
- flatland — a region that lacks appreciable topographic relief.
- flaunted — to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.