8-letter words containing f, e, a
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calflike — resembling a calf
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- 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.
- 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
- cat cafe — a business establishment that has numerous cats available for customers to play with, and usually offers food and drinks.
- 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.
- 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.
- chaffery — the act of bargaining
- chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
- chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
- chatfest — (informal) A talkfest.
- chauffer — a small portable heater or stove
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- clear of — If something or someone is a certain amount clear of a competitor, they are that amount ahead of them in a competition or race.
- clubface — the face of a golf club
- coalface — In a coal mine, the coalface is the part where the coal is being cut out of the rock.
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- craftier — Comparative form of crafty.
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- cream of — creamed purée of
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- 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).
- deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
- deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- defanged — to remove the fangs of: to defang a snake.