8-letter words containing f, e, r, o
- firebolt — A missile of fire.
- firebomb — an explosive device with incendiary effects.
- firedogs — Plural form of firedog.
- firehook — (dated, historical) a long pole with a hook at the end, used to pull down buildings and roof thatch to suppress a fire.
- firehose — Alternative spelling of fire hose.
- firelock — a gun having a lock in which the priming is ignited by sparks struck from flint and steel, as the flintlock musket.
- firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
- fireroom — a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.
- firestop — any object built into a building frame to block a concealed hollow space through which a fire might pass from one part of the building to another.
- firewood — wood suitable for fuel.
- firework — Often, fireworks. a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise, used for signaling or as part of a celebration.
- fireworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Rhopobota naevana (black-headed fireworm) which feeds on the leaves of cranberries and causes them to wither.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- flavorer — One who or that which flavors.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floeberg — a mass of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
- floggers — Plural form of flogger.
- flooders — high waters.
- floorage — floor space.
- flopover — a continuous, vertical movement of a television image picture caused by interference in reception or by improper tuning.
- floppers — air plant (def 2).
- floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
- florence — Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
- florette — a small flower.
- florigen — a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- flossier — Comparative form of flossy.
- flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flowered — having flowers.
- flowerer — a plant that flowers at a specific time or in a certain manner.
- floweret — a small flower; floret.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- fluework — the flue stops of an organ collectively
- fluorene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 13 H 10 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and dyes.
- fluoride — a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF.
- fluorine — the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.
- fluorite — a common mineral, calcium fluoride, CaF 2 , occurring in green, blue, purple, yellow, or colorless crystals, usually in cubes: the principal source of fluorine, used also as a flux in metallurgy and for ornament.
- fly-over — overpass across a motorway
- flyovers — Plural form of flyover.
- foddered — Simple past tense and past participle of fodder.
- fodderer — a person who feeds cattle
- folderal — Alternative spelling of folderol.
- folderol — falderal.
- folivore — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- folklore — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
- folksier — Comparative form of folksy.
- follered — Simple past tense and past participle of foller.
- follower — a person or thing that follows.
- fomenter — One who incites or promotes.