8-letter words containing f, c
- c-refine — A preprocessor for C and languages with similar syntax by Lutz Prechelt <[email protected]>. C-Refine allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. Version 3.0 is available from comp.sources.reviewed archives. It is highly portable and has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga.
- 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.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- caffeine — Caffeine is a chemical substance found in coffee, tea, and cocoa, which affects your brain and body and makes you more active.
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- caitiffs — Plural form of caitiff.
- calcific — forming or causing to form lime or chalk
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calflike — resembling a calf
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- califont — a gas water heater
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- call off — If you call off an event that has been planned, you cancel it.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camshaft — A camshaft is a rod in an engine and works to change circular motion into motion up and down or from side to side.
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
- 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
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- cast off — If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you.
- cast-off — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- castoffs — Plural form of castoff.
- cat cafe — a business establishment that has numerous cats available for customers to play with, and usually offers food and drinks.
- cat flap — opening in door for cat
- cat flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- cat food — tinned food for cats
- cat-foot — to move in the soft, stealthy manner of a cat; pussyfoot.
- catalufa — any of several bigeyes, as Pristigenys serrula (popeye catalufa) found in the Pacific Ocean.
- catchfly — any of several caryophyllaceous plants of the genus Silene that have sticky calyxes and stems on which insects are sometimes trapped
- catfight — A catfight is an angry fight or quarrel, especially between women.
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- chaffery — the act of bargaining
- chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
- chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
- chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
- chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
- chanfron — a piece of plate armor for defending a horse's head.
- chargaff — Erwin. 1905–2002, US biochemist, born in Austria, noted esp for his work on DNA