8-letter words containing f, a, s, c
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- fascista — a member of the Fascist movement in Italy.
- fascisti — an Italian political organization which seized power and set up a fascist dictatorship (1922-43) under Mussolini
- fascists — Plural form of fascist.
- fascitis — (pathology) Inflammation of the fascia.
- fasnacht — a deep-fried raised doughnut; originally served on Shrove Tuesday as the last sweet treat before Lent.
- fast ice — ice that is frozen to, grounded on, or attached to the bottom of an area covered by shallow water.
- fast-cut — to go abruptly from one brief scene to another.
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- fatstock — livestock that has been fattened for market.
- faxbacks — Plural form of faxback.
- feasance — the doing or performing of an act, as of a condition or duty.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fiancees — Plural form of fiancee.
- finances — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fiscally — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- fishcake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- flatcars — Plural form of flatcar.
- flexcash — flexdollars.
- fly-cast — Angling. to fish by fly casting.
- foolscap — a type of inexpensive writing paper, especially legal-size, lined, yellow sheets, bound in tablet form.
- forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forslack — to neglect or be neglectful
- frackers — Plural form of fracker.
- fractals — Plural form of fractal.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- francais — (borrowed) The French language.
- frascati — a fruity white wine from Rome.
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- pacifism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- salvific — of or relating to redemptive power.
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- scaffold — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- 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.