8-letter words containing f, a, r
- arciform — shaped like an arch
- argufied — Simple past tense and past participle of argufy.
- argufier — a person who argufies
- argufies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argufy.
- art film — a film characterized primarily by content and technique that reflect an artistic sensibility, by psychological or social realism, etc.
- art form — If you describe an activity as an art form, you mean that it is concerned with creating objects, works, or performances that are beautiful or have a serious meaning.
- artefact — An artefact is an ornament, tool, or other object that is made by a human being, especially one that is historically or culturally interesting.
- artfully — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- artifact — any object made by human work; esp., a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.
- artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- at first — You use at first when you are talking about what happens in the early stages of an event or experience, or just after something else has happened, in contrast to what happens later.
- aurifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aurify.
- auriform — shaped like an ear; auricular
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- autograf — (tool) A system for describing bar charts.
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- bad form — If you say that it is bad form to behave in a particular way, you mean that it is rude and impolite.
- balefire — a bonfire
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- bar food — food served in a pub
- bar foot — a foot having the form of a bar connecting the corresponding front and rear legs of a piece.
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- barf bag — Slang. a disposable paper bag provided by airlines for each passenger in the event of air sickness and usually placed in the pocket behind every seat.
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barfmail — (messaging) Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or misbehaves.
- basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
- bear off — (of a vessel) to avoid hitting an obstacle, another vessel, etc, by swerving onto a different course
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- bedframe — the framework of a bed
- bergfall — an avalanche
- bid fair — to seem probable
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- bradford — an industrial city in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire: a centre of the woollen industry from the 14th century and of the worsted trade from the 18th century; university (1966). Pop: 293 717 (2001)
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- cafe car — a railroad car, part of which is used as a diner and part as a lounge, smoker, etc.
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- carefree — A carefree person or period of time doesn't have or involve any problems, worries, or responsibilities.
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carfares — Plural form of carfare.
- carfaxes — Plural form of carfax.
- carnifex — an executioner
- cart off — to carry or remove brusquely or by force