8-letter words containing f, a, r, p
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- part-off — a screen used to divide off part of a room, such as the eating place of a parlour
- parts of — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass for — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- perfecta — exacta.
- pfortran — Parallel Fortran
- 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.
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- play for — sport: represent, be on the side of
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- pratfall — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prefaded — given a faded or worn look beforehand (as of jeans, etc)
- 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.
- preflame — of the period before combustion
- prefrank — to frank in advance
- pressfat — a wine vat
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- proforma — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- rap full — (of a sail or sails) filled with wind; clean full.
- ratproof — impenetrable by rats, resistant to rats
- repacify — to pacify again
- 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.
- scarfpin — tiepin.
- snarf up — to eat quickly and voraciously; scarf (often followed by down or up).
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- trapfall — a trapdoor that opens under the feet