8-letter words containing f, a
- 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.
- asfetida — asafetida.
- ash fall — a rain of airborne ash resulting from a volcanic eruption.
- ash flow — an avalanche of volcanic ash.
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- at fault — If someone or something is at fault, they are to blame or are responsible for a particular situation that has gone wrong.
- 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
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- autofill — (computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- autoflow — (transitive, computing) To flow (text) automatically.
- autograf — (tool) A system for describing bar charts.
- avifauna — all the birds in a particular region
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- awfulize — (psychotherapy) To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
- aycliffe — a town in Co Durham: founded as a new town in 1947. Pop (including Newton Aycliffe): 25 655 (2001)
- babyfood — food for babies, often puréed
- back emf — an electromagnetic force appearing in an inductive circuit in such a direction as to oppose any change of current in the circuit
- back off — If you back off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.
- backfall — a fall or throw onto the back
- backfile — the archives of a newspaper or magazine
- backfill — to refill an excavated trench, esp (in archaeology) at the end of an investigation
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- backfist — a karate punch with the back of a clenched hand.
- backflip — a backwards somersault in mid air with arms and legs extended
- backflow — a reverse flow, the movement (of a liquid) in the opposite direction to its previous, natural or intended direction
- backfoot — (transitive) To put on the defensive; to put off balance.
- backlift — the backward movement of a cricket bat in preparation for a swing
- baclofen — a muscle-relaxing drug used to treat muscle spasms
- bad form — If you say that it is bad form to behave in a particular way, you mean that it is rude and impolite.
- baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- bailiffs — Plural form of bailiff.
- baitfish — any small fish used as bait for larger fish
- bake-off — A bake-off is a cooking competition.
- balafons — Plural form of balafon.
- balefire — a bonfire
- balefull — Archaic form of baleful.
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- banoffee — a filling for a pie, consisting of toffee and banana
- 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.