8-letter words containing f, e, n, a
- mafeking — a town in N Republic of South Africa: former administrative seat of Bechuanaland; besieged for 217 days by Boers 1899–1900.
- mafikeng — a town in N South Africa: besieged by the Boers for 217 days (1899–1900) during the second Boer War: administrative headquarters of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland until 1965, although outside its borders. Pop: 23 650 (2001)
- manifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- matfelon — knapweed
- metafont — A system for the design of raster-based alphabets by Donald Knuth. A companion to TeX.
- moonface — a round and full face
- nailfile — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- new face — Someone who is new in a particular public role can be referred to as a new face.
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- oak fern — a small woodland fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, of northern regions, having triangular, pinnate fronds that slant horizontally.
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- ozenfant — Amédée [a-mey-dey] /a meɪˈdeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1966, French painter and writer, in the U.S. after 1938.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- pencraft — the art or craft of writing; skill with writing
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- prefrank — to frank in advance
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- refasten — to fasten again
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- safeness — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- santa fé — a city in E Argentina.
- 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.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- stefanie — a female given name.
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- tiffanie — a breed of cat with semi-long hair, having a white undercoat with the ends coloured
- transfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- twinleaf — a North American herb, Jeffersonia diphylla, having a single white blossom and leaves divided in two.
- unfabled — not fictitious
- unfailed — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- unfairer — more unfair
- unfallen — past participle of fall.
- unfanned — not fanned
- unfasten — to release from or as from fastenings; detach.
- unfeared — not feared
- unfeudal — not feudal
- unflared — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- unflawed — perfect
- unframed — picture: without a frame
- unsafely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- unsafety — unsafe state or condition; exposure to danger or risk; insecurity.
- vinifera — of, relating to, or derived from a European grape, Vitis vinifera, widely cultivated for making wine and raisins and for table use.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- wolfbane — See 'wolfsbane'.
- yankeefy — to cause to acquire Yankee traits or characteristics: She was afraid that a year in a Connecticut college had Yankeefied her speech.