8-letter words containing f, e
- belfried — with a belfry
- bellyful — as much as one wants or can eat
- bemuffle — to muffle, wrap up warmly
- benefact — to be a benefactor to
- benefice — an endowed Church office yielding an income to its holder; a Church living
- benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.
- benfleet — a town in SE England, in S Essex on an inlet of the Thames estuary. Pop: 48 539 (2001)
- bergfall — an avalanche
- best fit — (algorithm) A resource allocation scheme (usually for memory). Best Fit allocates resources in a way that optimises some parameter. Alternative schemes such as first fit or random allocation are likely to be quicker but sub-optimal in use of resources. For example, when allocating a new block of memory from a pool of free blocks (a heap), one might choose the smallest space which is big enough. This would leave larger spaces free to satisfy larger requests and reduce fragmentation of the remaining free space.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- biforked — two-pronged
- big five — the five countries considered to be the major world powers. In the period immediately following World War II, the US, Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and France were regarded as the Big Five
- birdfeed — food for birds
- birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blue flu — a sickout, esp. by policemen
- blue fox — a variety of the arctic fox that has a pale grey winter coat and is bred for its fur
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- boofhead — a stupid person
- box file — a rigid file which opens like a box, usually made of strong cardboard and able to hold a large quantity of documents
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- buffable — able to be buffed
- buffered — an apparatus at the end of a railroad car, railroad track, etc., for absorbing shock during coupling, collisions, etc.
- buffeted — a blow, as with the hand or fist.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- c-refine — A preprocessor for C and languages with similar syntax by Lutz Prechelt <[email protected]>. C-Refine allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. Version 3.0 is available from comp.sources.reviewed archives. It is highly portable and has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga.
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- cafe car — a railroad car, part of which is used as a diner and part as a lounge, smoker, etc.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- caffeine — Caffeine is a chemical substance found in coffee, tea, and cocoa, which affects your brain and body and makes you more active.
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calflike — resembling a calf
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
- carefree — A carefree person or period of time doesn't have or involve any problems, worries, or responsibilities.
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carfares — Plural form of carfare.
- carfaxes — Plural form of carfax.
- carnifex — an executioner