8-letter words containing f, r
- come for — If people such as soldiers or police come for you, they come to find you, usually in order to harm you or take you away, for example to prison.
- comforts — things that make life easier and more pleasant
- 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
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confiner — One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- confirme — Obsolete spelling of confirm.
- confirms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confirm.
- conforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conform.
- confrere — colleague
- confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
- confuser — One who or that which confuses.
- confuter — A person who confutes.
- conifers — Plural form of conifer.
- coniform — shaped like a cone
- cookfire — A fire used for cooking food.
- copurify — (of a compound) to purify, and be purified by, another compound
- 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
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- craftier — Comparative form of crafty.
- craftily — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cragfast — stranded or stuck on a crag
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- cream of — creamed purée of
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- 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
- crucifer — any plant of the family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae), having a corolla of four petals arranged like a cross and a fruit called a siliqua. The family includes the brassicas, mustard, cress, and wallflower
- crucifix — A crucifix is a cross with a figure of Christ on it.
- 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.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- dandriff — Archaic spelling of dandruff.
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- dartford — a town in SE England, in NW Kent. Pop: 56 818 (2001)
- de kruif — Paul (Henry)1890-1971; U.S. bacteriologist & writer