7-letter words containing f, e
- bateful — (obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- be off! — go away!
- beatify — When the Catholic church beatifies someone who is dead, it declares officially that they were a holy person, usually as the first step towards making them a saint.
- bedfast — bedridden
- bedford — a town in SE central England, in Bedfordshire, on the River Ouse; administrative centre of Bedford unitary authority. Pop: 82 488 (2001)
- bedform — (geology) One of a series of hollows and ripples formed in the bed of a river by the flow of water.
- bedwarf — to greatly hamper the growth of
- bee fly — any hairy beelike nectar-eating dipterous fly of the family Bombyliidae, whose larvae are parasitic on those of bees and related insects
- beef up — If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
- beef-up — an act or instance of strengthening or reinforcing.
- beefalo — a cross between a domestic cow and a buffalo, technically one that is three-eighths buffalo and five-eighths cow, intended for beef production
- beefers — Plural form of beefer.
- beefier — of or like beef.
- beefing — the flesh of a cow, steer, or bull raised and killed for its meat.
- beetfly — a muscid fly, Pegomyia hyoscyami: a common pest of beets and mangel-wurzels
- befalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befall.
- befleck — to fleck all over
- beg off — to ask to be released from an engagement, obligation, etc
- belfast — the capital of Northern Ireland, a port on Belfast Lough in Belfast district, Co Antrim and Co Down: became the centre of Irish Protestantism and of the linen industry in the 17th century; seat of the Northern Ireland assembly and executive. Pop: 281 000 (2011 est)
- belfort — a fortress town in E France: strategically situated in the Belfort Gap between the Vosges and the Jura mountains. Pop: 50 417 (1999)
- beliefs — something believed; an opinion or conviction: a belief that the earth is flat.
- benefic — beneficent
- benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
- beowulf — an anonymous Old English epic poem in alliterative verse, believed to have been composed in the 8th century ad
- bifteck — beefsteak
- biofuel — A biofuel is a gas, liquid, or solid from natural sources such as plants that is used as a fuel.
- bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- bodeful — portentous, foreboding, ominous
- bonfire — A bonfire is a fire that is made outdoors, usually to burn rubbish. Bonfires are also sometimes lit as part of a celebration.
- briefed — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- briefer — A briefer is an official who has the job of giving information about something, for example a war.
- briefly — Something that happens or is done briefly happens or is done for a very short period of time.
- buffers — a foolish or incompetent person.
- buffett — Warren (Edward). born 1930, US financier, investor, and philanthropist
- caffein — a white, crystalline, bitter alkaloid, C 8 H 10 N 4 O 2 , usually derived from coffee or tea: used in medicine chiefly as a nervous system stimulant.
- cafileh — Alternative form of cafila.
- cageful — an amount which fills a cage to capacity
- carafes — Plural form of carafe.
- care of — at the address of: written on envelopes
- careful — If you are careful, you give serious attention to what you are doing, in order to avoid harm, damage, or mistakes. If you are careful to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- carfare — the fare that a passenger is charged for a ride on a bus, etc
- catface — the deformity of the surface of a tree trunk which has been caused by fire or disease
- certify — If someone in an official position certifies something, they officially state that it is true.
- chafers — Plural form of chafer.
- chaffed — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
- chaffer — to haggle or bargain
- chamfer — a narrow flat surface at the corner of a beam, post, etc, esp one at an angle of 45°
- chefdom — the state or condition of being a chef
- chiefer — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chiefly — You use chiefly to indicate that a particular reason, emotion, method, or feature is the main or most important one.