8-letter words containing f, a, c
- 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.
- 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.
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defecate — When people and animals defecate, they get rid of waste matter from their body through their anus.
- defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
- diffract — to break up or bend by diffraction.
- dogfaces — Plural form of dogface.
- dollface — a person having a smooth, unblemished complexion and small, regular features.
- duckface — Informal. a facial expression in which the lips are pressed together and pushed forward, especially in a photograph.
- ecofreak — a zealous or overly zealous environmentalist or preservationist.
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- efficacy — capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness: a remedy of great efficacy.
- epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
- f factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- f-factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- facadism — the principle or practice of preserving the fronts of buildings that have elegant architectural designs; the construction of a modern building behind its old or original front.
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face out — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-off — the act of facing the puck, as at the start of a game or period.
- faceable — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- faceache — (UK, informal) A miserable-looking person.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- facedown — with the face or the front or upper surface downward: He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.
- faceless — without a face: a faceless apparition.
- facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- facemail — a computer program which uses an electronically generated face to deliver messages on screen