8-letter words containing f, i
- aquifers — Plural form of aquifer.
- aquiform — Resembling water; watery, liquid.
- arciform — shaped like an arch
- argufied — Simple past tense and past participle of argufy.
- argufier — a person who argufies
- argufies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argufy.
- art film — a film characterized primarily by content and technique that reflect an artistic sensibility, by psychological or social realism, etc.
- artifact — any object made by human work; esp., a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.
- artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
- asfetida — asafetida.
- at first — You use at first when you are talking about what happens in the early stages of an event or experience, or just after something else has happened, in contrast to what happens later.
- aurifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aurify.
- auriform — shaped like an ear; auricular
- autofill — (computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- avifauna — all the birds in a particular region
- awfulize — (psychotherapy) To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
- aycliffe — a town in Co Durham: founded as a new town in 1947. Pop (including Newton Aycliffe): 25 655 (2001)
- backfile — the archives of a newspaper or magazine
- backfill — to refill an excavated trench, esp (in archaeology) at the end of an investigation
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- backfist — a karate punch with the back of a clenched hand.
- backflip — a backwards somersault in mid air with arms and legs extended
- backlift — the backward movement of a cricket bat in preparation for a swing
- baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- bailiffs — Plural form of bailiff.
- baitfish — any small fish used as bait for larger fish
- balefire — a bonfire
- bandfile — to file with a file band on a band mill or band saw.
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barfmail — (messaging) Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or misbehaves.
- basified — Simple past tense and past participle of basify.
- basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
- basinful — As much as a basin will hold.
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- beatific — A beatific expression shows or expresses great happiness and calmness.
- beautify — If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful.
- befinger — to finger all over
- befinned — having fins
- befriend — If you befriend someone, especially someone who is lonely or far from home, you make friends with them.
- befringe — to decorate with a fringe
- belfried — with a belfry
- 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.
- 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.
- bid fair — to seem probable
- bifacial — having two faces or surfaces
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations