8-letter words containing f, r, e, o, a
- forwaste — to waste completely
- forweary — to exhaust
- foveolar — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- frailero — an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- fumarole — a hole in or near a volcano, from which vapor rises.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- fusarole — a type of architectural moulding often found below the echinus or quarter round of a column
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- head for — go towards, go to
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- lagerlof — Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) [sel-mah awt-ti-lee-ah-nah loo-vi-sah] /ˈsɛl mɑ ˌɔt tɪ liˈɑ nɑ ˈlu vɪˌsɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- make for — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- oak fern — a small woodland fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, of northern regions, having triangular, pinnate fronds that slant horizontally.
- off year — a year without a major, especially presidential, election.
- off-year — An off-year is a year when no major political elections are held.
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- over-fat — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- overfall — A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.
- overfast — too fast
- overfear — to fear too much
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overleaf — on the other side of the page or sheet.
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- race off — to entice (a person) away with a view to seduction
- rake off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- rake-off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- seafloor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- take for — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- tear off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- tear-off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second