8-letter words containing f, i, r, e
- log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- mammifer — (obsolete) mammal.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- midlifer — a middle-aged person
- misfired — Simple past tense and past participle of misfire.
- misfires — Plural form of misfire.
- misframe — to frame wrongly
- misinfer — to infer wrongly
- misrefer — to refer to (something) wrongly
- modifier — a person or thing that modifies.
- needfire — spontaneous combustion.
- notifier — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- offering — an act or instance of offering: an offer of help.
- officers — Plural form of officer.
- offsider — an assistant or helper.
- oilfired — (of central heating) using oil as fuel
- opificer — someone who makes something; a craftsman
- orifices — an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.
- outfires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outfire.
- overfill — to fill too full, so as to cause overflowing.
- overfine — too fine
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overrife — too rife
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
- perfecti — the elite group of the Cathars, characterized by their extreme asceticism, and thereby viewed by their followers as trans-material angels
- perforin — a protein produced by killer cells of the immune system that causes disintegration of targeted cells by forming pores in their membranes.
- pfitzner — Hans Erich [hahns ey-rikh] /ˈhɑns ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1869–1949, German composer and conductor.
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- pig fern — giant bracken
- pilferer — petty thief
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- portfire — (formerly) a slow-burning fuse used for firing rockets and fireworks and, in mining, for igniting explosives
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- prefixed — A word or code number that is prefixed by one or more letters or numbers has them as its prefix.
- prefixes — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- prettify — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- prideful — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- pro-life — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- profiled — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiler — any of several types of machine tools for reproducing shapes in metal or other materials from a master form.
- 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.
- prolifer — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- purified — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purifier — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.