8-letter words containing f, n
- 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)
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- bloodfin — a silvery red-finned South American freshwater fish, Aphyocharax rubripinnis: a popular aquarium fish: family Characidae (characins)
- bluffing — to mislead by a display of strength, self-confidence, or the like: He bluffed me into believing that he was a doctor.
- 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
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- bowfront — having a front that curves outwards
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bunk off — If you bunk off from school or work, you leave without permission and do something else.
- burn off — If someone burns off energy, they use it.
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- 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.
- caffeine — Caffeine is a chemical substance found in coffee, tea, and cocoa, which affects your brain and body and makes you more active.
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- califont — a gas water heater
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- carnifex — an executioner
- chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
- chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
- chanfron — a piece of plate armor for defending a horse's head.
- chiffons — Plural form of chiffon.
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- chuffing — (intensifier)
- clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- coffined — Simple past tense and past participle of coffin.
- coffling — Present participle of coffle.
- cofiring — combustion of two different types of fuel at the same time
- cofusion — Alternative form of co-fusion.
- coiffing — coiffure (defs 1, 3).
- coinfect — to infect (a person or animal) at the same time as another infection
- cone off — to close (one carriageway of a motorway) by placing warning cones across it
- confects — Plural form of confect.
- conferee — a person who takes part in a conference
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- confesse — Obsolete spelling of confess.
- confetti — Confetti is small pieces of coloured paper that people throw over the bride and bridegroom at a wedding.
- confetto — a sweetmeat
- confided — Simple past tense and past participle of confide.
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.