8-letter words containing f, e
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- confinee — a person held in confinement.
- confiner — One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- confines — limits; boundaries
- confirme — Obsolete spelling of confirm.
- confixed — Simple past tense and past participle of confix.
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- confrere — colleague
- confused — If you are confused, you do not know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confuser — One who or that which confuses.
- confuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confuse.
- confuted — Simple past tense and past participle of confute.
- confuter — A person who confutes.
- confutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confute.
- conifers — Plural form of conifer.
- cookfire — A fire used for cooking food.
- copyleft — a form of licensing that imposes fewer restrictions on the use of a work than copyright
- corn-fed — fed on corn, esp maize
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- craftier — Comparative form of crafty.
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- cream of — creamed purée of
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- crofters — Plural form of crofter.
- crucifer — any plant of the family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae), having a corolla of four petals arranged like a cross and a fruit called a siliqua. The family includes the brassicas, mustard, cress, and wallflower
- cuffless — having no cuff or cuffs
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- de kruif — Paul (Henry)1890-1971; U.S. bacteriologist & writer
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
- deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- deep-fry — If you deep-fry food, you fry it in a large amount of fat or oil.
- deepfelt — relating to a sincere or profound experience
- deer fly — any of several tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, the female of which is a vector of tularemia in deer, livestock, and humans.
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.