8-letter words containing f, a, u, s
- fistulae — Pathology. a narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury, as one leading from an abscess to a free surface, or from one cavity to another.
- fistulas — Plural form of fistula.
- flaneurs — Plural form of flaneur.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- flashgun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flatuous — flatulent
- flautist — flutist.
- flavours — Plural form of flavour.
- flue gas — the smoke in the uptake of a boiler fire: it consists mainly of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen
- formulas — (informal) Plural form of formula.
- fougasse — a type of bread made with olive oil
- foulards — Plural form of foulard.
- foumarts — Plural form of foumart.
- frabjous — wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
- fraughts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught.
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- 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.
- fujisawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, S of Tokyo.
- 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
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- fusional — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- ghastful — frightful.
- glassful — an amount contained by or sufficient to fill a glass or tumbler.
- handfuls — Plural form of handful.
- handsful — Plural form of handful.
- hasteful — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hausfrau — a housewife.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- inflatus — A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudflats — Plural form of mudflat.
- 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.
- outfalls — Plural form of outfall.
- outfeast — to exceed in feasting
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- scrofula — primary tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands, especially those of the neck.
- shameful — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- snarf up — to eat quickly and voraciously; scarf (often followed by down or up).
- spadeful — the amount that can be dug out with or carried on a spade.
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- startful — tending to make sudden small involuntary movements of the body from fright or nerves, etc