8-letter words containing f, a, r
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- dry-farm — to engage in dryland farming.
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarfism — the condition of being a dwarf or dwarfed.
- ear tuft — a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.
- earflaps — Plural form of earflap.
- earmuffs — A pair of soft fabric coverings, connected by a band across the top of the head, that are worn over the ears to protect them from cold or noise.
- ecofreak — a zealous or overly zealous environmentalist or preservationist.
- engrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engraft.
- f factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- f-factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- f1 layer — the highest of the radio-reflective ionospheric layers, beginning at an altitude of about 80 miles (130 km) and consisting of two parts, the lower part (F layer) being detectable in the daytime only, the higher (F layer or Appleton layer) being constant and constituting the ionospheric layer most favorable for long-range radio communication.
- f2 layer — the highest of the radio-reflective ionospheric layers, beginning at an altitude of about 80 miles (130 km) and consisting of two parts, the lower part (F layer) being detectable in the daytime only, the higher (F layer or Appleton layer) being constant and constituting the ionospheric layer most favorable for long-range radio communication.
- fabiform — Shaped like a bean.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- faceward — Toward the face.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- factored — Simple past tense and past participle of factor.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- faeroese — a native or inhabitant of the Faeroe Islands.
- faggotry — (pejorative, slang) The quality of being a faggot (homosexual).
- failover — A method of protecting computer systems from failure, in which standby equipment automatically takes over when the main system fails.
- failures — Plural form of failure.
- fair go! — come off it!; I don't believe it!
- fair sex — women as a group (usually used facetiously): an insult to the fair sex.
- fair-use — reasonable and limited use of copyrighted material so as not to infringe upon copyright: The artist's biographer claimed fair use of quotes from unpublished personal letters.
- fairborn — a city in W Ohio, near Dayton.
- fairgoer — a person attending a fair
- fairings — Plural form of fairing.
- fairlead — a pulley, thimble, etc., used to guide a rope forming part of the rigging of a ship, crane, etc., in such a way as to prevent chafing.
- fairmont — a city in W West Virginia.
- fairness — the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness: I have to admit, in all fairness, that she would only be paid for part of the work.
- fairview — a town in NE New Jersey.
- fairways — Plural form of fairway.
- fairydom — The realm or sphere of fairies.
- fairyism — fairylike quality.
- fakirism — the beliefs and practices of fakirs
- falconer — a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- falderal — mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas.
- falderol — mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas.
- faliraki — a coastal resort in SE Greece, on Rhodes. Pop: 400 (2000 est)
- fall for — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallower — A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.
- faltered — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.