8-letter words containing f, e, c
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- malefice — a wicked deed or enchantment
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- moonface — a round and full face
- neckbeef — the flesh from the neck of cattle, regarded as being of poor quality
- new face — Someone who is new in a particular public role can be referred to as a new face.
- offences — Plural form of offence.
- officers — Plural form of officer.
- old face — a type style that originated in the 18th century, characterized by little contrast between thick and thin strokes
- olefinic — Characteristic of, or containing olefins.
- opificer — someone who makes something; a craftsman
- orifices — an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.
- outfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outface.
- outfence — to surpass at the sport of fencing
- pacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- perfecta — exacta.
- perfecti — the elite group of the Cathars, characterized by their extreme asceticism, and thereby viewed by their followers as trans-material angels
- perfecto — a rather thick, medium-sized cigar tapering almost down to a point at each end.
- perforce — of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance: The story must perforce be true.
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prefetch — instruction prefetch
- prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
- race off — to entice (a person) away with a view to seduction
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- re-fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- recodify — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- reconfer — to confer again
- redefect — to defect back or again
- ref. ch. — Reformed Church
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- refresco — a refreshment, as a soft drink.
- reinfect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- renforce — to reinforce
- repacify — to pacify again
- rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scarface — a 1983 cult gangster film written by Oliver Stone, directed by Brian de Palma, and starring Al Pacino.
- scentful — full of scent or odour; fragrant
- scoffers — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scofield — (David) Paul. (1922–2008), English stage and film actor