8-letter words containing f, e, r, h
- forewish — (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
- forhaile — to distress
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- forsythe — A descendent of Algol 60, intended to be as uniform and general as possible, while retaining the basic character of its progenitor. Forsythe features higher-order procedures and intersection types.
- fortieth — next after the thirty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 40.
- fourchee — a type of heraldic cross
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- free hit — in certain forms of cricket, esp one-day internationals, after the bowler has bowled a no-ball, a chance for a batsman to strike a ball without the possibility of being caught out
- freehand — drawn or executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, or other aids: a freehand map.
- freehold — a town in E New Jersey: battle of Monmouth courthouse 1778.
- freights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freight.
- frenches — of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
- freshens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freshen.
- freshers — Plural form of fresher.
- freshest — newly made or obtained: fresh footprints.
- freshets — Plural form of freshet.
- freshies — Plural form of freshie.
- freshing — newly made or obtained: fresh footprints.
- freshish — reasonably fresh
- freshman — a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
- freshmen — a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frothery — an insubstantial thing; a triviality
- frothier — Comparative form of frothy.
- fuehrers — Plural form of fuehrer.
- furphies — Plural form of furphy.
- furthers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of further.
- furthest — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- harfleur — a port in N France, in Seine-Maritime department: important centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 8602 (2005)
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- head for — go towards, go to
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- hellfire — the fire of hell.
- hereford — one of an English breed of red beef cattle having a white face and white body markings.
- herefrom — (archaic) henceforth, from now on.
- hertford — a city in and the county seat of Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- kerchief — a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- offereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offer.
- offshore — off or away from the shore: They pushed the boat offshore.
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- prefetch — instruction prefetch
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.