8-letter words containing f, o, c
- conk off — to break or fail, as a machine or engine (often followed by out): The engine conked out halfway there.
- cook-off — A cook-off is a cooking competition.
- cookfire — A fire used for cooking food.
- cool off — If someone or something cools off, or if you cool them off, they become cooler after having been hot.
- copurify — (of a compound) to purify, and be purified by, another compound
- copyleft — a form of licensing that imposes fewer restrictions on the use of a work than copyright
- 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
- cow flop — cow dung.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- cream of — creamed purée of
- crofters — Plural form of crofter.
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- crowfoot — any of several plants of the genus Ranunculus, such as R. sceleratus and R. aquatilis (water crowfoot) that have yellow or white flowers and divided leaves resembling the foot of a crow
- cry foul — If you cry foul, you claim that someone, especially an opponent or rival, has acted illegally or unfairly.
- cry wolf — If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem.
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cuniform — Alternative spelling of cuneiform.
- cut-offs — Cut-offs are short pants made by cutting part of the legs off old pants.
- 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.
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- deforced — Simple past tense and past participle of deforce.
- deforcer — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- defrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrock.
- disfrock — to unfrock.
- dogfaces — Plural form of dogface.
- dollface — a person having a smooth, unblemished complexion and small, regular features.
- ecofreak — a zealous or overly zealous environmentalist or preservationist.
- effector — Also, effecter. a person or thing that effects.
- elflocks — A tangled mass of hair.
- encoffin — (transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
- enforced — Caused by necessity or force ; compulsory.
- enforcer — One who enforces.
- enforces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enforce.
- epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
- f factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- f-factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face out — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-off — the act of facing the puck, as at the start of a game or period.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- facedown — with the face or the front or upper surface downward: He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.