8-letter words containing f, e, r, o, t
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- frotteur — a person who practices frottage.
- frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
- frowster — a person who enjoys being in a hot and stale atmosphere
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fumewort — Any of various plants of the subfamily Fumarioideae or family Fumariaceae.
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- hertford — a city in and the county seat of Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- leftover — Usually, leftovers. food remaining uneaten at the end of a meal, especially when saved for later use.
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- notifier — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- offereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offer.
- outfires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outfire.
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- over-fat — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- overfast — too fast
- oversoft — too soft
- pentroof — a roof sloping in only one direction
- perfecto — a rather thick, medium-sized cigar tapering almost down to a point at each end.
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- portfire — (formerly) a slow-burning fuse used for firing rockets and fireworks and, in mining, for igniting explosives
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- profiter — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- reforest — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- renotify — to notify again
- reoutfit — to outfit again
- resoften — to make or become soft again
- retiform — netlike; reticulate.
- retrofit — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
- rooftree — the ridgepole of a roof.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
- soft roe — milt (def 2).
- softcore — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- softener — Chemistry. any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its softness, smoothness, or plasticity. water softener.
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- take for — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- tear off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- tear-off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- therefor — for or in exchange for that or this; for it: a refund therefor.
- tradeoff — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- wetproof — waterproof.
- writeoff — Alternative spelling of write-off.