8-letter words containing f, e, r, t
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- 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.
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- prefetch — instruction prefetch
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- pressfat — a wine vat
- prettify — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- 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.
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- rafferty — confused; disorganized.
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- ratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- redefeat — to defeat again
- redefect — to defect back or again
- 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.
- refasten — to fasten again
- referent — the object or event to which a term or symbol refers.
- refilter — to filter again
- refitted — to fit, prepare, or equip again.
- refluent — flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
- 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.
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- reinfect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- 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.
- riftless — without rift
- rooftree — the ridgepole of a roof.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- sea fret — a wet mist or haze coming inland from the sea
- seacraft — the skills and knowledge of a sailor
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- set free — liberate from captivity
- 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).
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- sulfuret — Chemistry. a sulfide.
- superfit — extremely fit
- taffarel — taffrail.
- tafferel — taffrail.
- 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.
- tartuffe — (italics) a comedy (1664–69) by Molière.
- tax-free — tax-exempt (def 1).