8-letter words containing f, b, a
- befallen — to happen or occur.
- benefact — to be a benefactor to
- bergfall — an avalanche
- bid fair — to seem probable
- bifacial — having two faces or surfaces
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- blackfly — a black aphid, Aphis fabae, that infests beans, sugar beet, and other plants
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- 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
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
- bobfloat — a small buoyant float, usually consisting of a quill stuck through a piece of cork
- body fat — the amount of fat on a person's body
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- boofhead — a stupid person
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- 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
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buffable — able to be buffed
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- clubface — the face of a golf club
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- fabiform — Shaped like a bean.
- fabliaux — Plural form of fabliau.
- fabulate — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fabulize — To compose or relate fables or fictions.
- fabulous — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- faceable — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- fahlband — (geology) A stratum in crystalline rock that contains metallic sulfides.
- failback — failover