8-letter words containing f, n
- 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.
- confirms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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.
- conflict — Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
- confocal — having a common focus or common foci
- conforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conform.
- confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
- confrere — colleague
- confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
- 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.
- coniform — shaped like a cone
- conk off — to break or fail, as a machine or engine (often followed by out): The engine conked out halfway there.
- corn-fed — fed on corn, esp maize
- cornflag — a gladiolus, any iridaceous plant of the genus Gladiolus
- cornific — producing horns
- cornloft — a loft for storing corn
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- cufflink — Cufflinks are small decorative objects used for holding together shirt cuffs around the wrist.
- cuniform — Alternative spelling of cuneiform.
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- damnfool — (informal) Contemptibly foolish.
- dandriff — Archaic spelling of dandruff.
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- defanged — to remove the fangs of: to defang a snake.
- defenced — defense.
- defences — any means of defence
- defended — Simple past tense and past participle of defend.
- defender — If someone is a defender of a particular thing or person that has been criticized, they argue or act in support of that thing or person.
- defensed — resistance against attack; protection: Two more regiments are needed for the defense of the city.
- defenses — Plural form of defense.