8-letter words containing f, a, r, s
- freeways — Plural form of freeway.
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- freshman — a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
- fret saw — a long, narrow-bladed saw used to cut ornamental work from thin wood. Compare coping saw.
- friaries — Plural form of friary.
- friesian — horse
- frigates — Plural form of frigate.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- fud wars — /fuhd worz/ Political posturing, intended to create FUD, engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardisation but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example.
- fumarase — an enzyme found in liver and muscle which acts as a catalyst in the inter-conversion of fumarate and malate
- funerals — Plural form of funeral.
- fur seal — any of several eared seals, as Callorhinus alascanus, having a plush underfur used in making coats, trimmings, etc.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.
- fusarole — a type of architectural moulding often found below the echinus or quarter round of a column
- gas fire — A gas fire is a fire that produces heat by burning gas.
- gasifier — An apparatus used to perform gasification.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- giraffes — Plural form of giraffe.
- grafters — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- hausfrau — a housewife.
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- isograft — syngraft.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- misframe — to frame wrongly
- misgraff — badly matched
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- overfast — too fast
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- 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.
- pressfat — a wine vat
- raftsman — a person who manages or is employed on a raft.
- refasten — to fasten again
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- safarist — a person on safari
- saffrony — saffron-coloured
- safranin — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- safronal — an oily liquid derived from saffron
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- scarface — a 1983 cult gangster film written by Oliver Stone, directed by Brian de Palma, and starring Al Pacino.
- scarfing — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.