8-letter words containing f, r, o
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- frontend — Alternative form of front end.
- fronters — Plural form of fronter.
- frontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- fronting — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frontlet — Also, frontal. a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead: The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.
- frontman — a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group.
- frontmen — Plural form of frontman.
- frontons — Plural form of fronton.
- froshing — Present participle of frosh.
- frostbit — injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.
- frostier — Comparative form of frosty.
- frostily — characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold: frosty weather.
- frosting — a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
- frothery — an insubstantial thing; a triviality
- frothier — Comparative form of frothy.
- frothily — In a frothy way.
- frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- 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).
- frotteur — a person who practices frottage.
- frottoir — Synonym of rubboard.
- froufrou — elaborate decoration, as frills, ribbons, or ruffles, especially on women's clothing.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- frown on — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- frowning — Present participle of frown.
- frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
- frowster — a person who enjoys being in a hot and stale atmosphere
- frowzily — in a frowzy or unkempt manner
- frozenly — While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fruition — attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment: After years of hard work she finally brought her idea to full fruition.
- fry cook — a cook who mainly prepares fried foods, as at a lunch counter.
- fuel rod — nuclear fuel contained in a long thin-walled tube, an array of such tubes forming the core of a nuclear reactor.
- fujimori — Alberto, born 1938, president of Peru 1990–2000.
- fumarole — a hole in or near a volcano, from which vapor rises.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- fumewort — Any of various plants of the subfamily Fumarioideae or family Fumariaceae.
- fumitory — any plant of the genus Fumaria, especially a delicate herb, F. officinalis, having finely dissected, grayish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- furfurol — (erroneously) furfural.
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- furrower — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.