8-letter words containing f, a, r, i
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- infrared — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- isograft — syngraft.
- jalfrezi — A style of curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis.
- janiform — Janus-faced.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- life car — a watertight container used in marine rescue operations, suspended from a hawser and hauled back and forth between a stranded or wrecked vessel and the shore.
- lifecare — the long-term care of the health and welfare of someone, esp an elderly person within a residential community
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- mammifer — (obsolete) mammal.
- maniform — shaped like a hand.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- misframe — to frame wrongly
- misgraff — badly matched
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- mufulira — a city in N central Zambia, on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- naviform — Shaped like a boat.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- pair off — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- paliform — resembling a stake
- paraffin — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
- parafoil — a structure, usually made of a strong yet light fabric, having a shape similar to that of an airplane wing, and used as a kite or a parachute.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- pig farm — a farm where pigs are kept and reared
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- radcliff — a city in central Kentucky.
- radium f — an isotope of polonium: polonium 210.
- raffling — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- rain off — If a sports game is rained off, it has to stop, or it is not able to start, because of rain.
- rainfall — a fall or shower of rain.
- ramiform — having the form of a branch; branchlike.
- raniform — resembling a frog, froglike
- rarefied — extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted: the rarefied atmosphere of a scholarly symposium.
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- ratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- reaffirm — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- repacify — to pacify again
- rfid tag — RFID tags are barcodes that make use of radio waves to send information tracking individual products at every stage, from delivery to stockroom to checkout, in a networked system.
- rifampin — a semisynthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 4 3 H 5 8 N 4 O 1 2 , used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, asymptomatic carriers of meningococcal disease, and leprosy.