8-letter words containing f, r
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifters — Plural form of drifter.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnet — Alternative spelling of drift net.
- driftpin — driftbolt (def 1).
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- drop off — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop-off — a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- dropoffs — Plural form of dropoff.
- drumfire — gunfire so heavy and continuous as to sound like the beating of drums.
- drumfish — drum1 (def 11).
- dry-farm — to engage in dryland farming.
- dumfries — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarfism — the condition of being a dwarf or dwarfed.
- ear tuft — a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.
- earflaps — Plural form of earflap.
- earmuffs — A pair of soft fabric coverings, connected by a band across the top of the head, that are worn over the ears to protect them from cold or noise.
- ecofreak — a zealous or overly zealous environmentalist or preservationist.
- effecter — effector (def 1).
- effector — Also, effecter. a person or thing that effects.
- efferent — conveying or conducting away from an organ or part (opposed to afferent).
- effierce — to make fierce
- eggfruit — the fruit of the eggplant or aubergine, Solanum melongena
- enfetter — Restrain (someone) with shackles.
- enfierce — to make ferocious
- enflower — to decorate with flowers
- enforced — Caused by necessity or force ; compulsory.
- enforcer — One who enforces.
- enforces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enforce.
- enforest — to make into a forest
- enfreeze — to freeze
- enfringe — Alternative form of infringe.
- engrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engraft.
- ensiform — Shaped like a sword blade; long and narrow with sharp edges and a pointed tip.
- esterify — (chemistry) (of an acid) to combine with an alcohol or (of an alcohol) to combine with an acid, to form an ester.
- etherify — (organic chemistry) To convert (an alcohol etc.) into an ether.
- exfriend — One who is no longer a friend; a former friend.
- f factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- f region — the ionospheric region in which the F layer forms.
- f-factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- f-number — a number corresponding to the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a lens system, especially a camera lens. In f /1.4, 1.4 is the f-number and signifies that the focal length of the lens is 1.4 times as great as the diameter. /, f/, f, f: Abbreviation: f.
- f1 layer — the highest of the radio-reflective ionospheric layers, beginning at an altitude of about 80 miles (130 km) and consisting of two parts, the lower part (F layer) being detectable in the daytime only, the higher (F layer or Appleton layer) being constant and constituting the ionospheric layer most favorable for long-range radio communication.
- f2 layer — the highest of the radio-reflective ionospheric layers, beginning at an altitude of about 80 miles (130 km) and consisting of two parts, the lower part (F layer) being detectable in the daytime only, the higher (F layer or Appleton layer) being constant and constituting the ionospheric layer most favorable for long-range radio communication.
- fabiform — Shaped like a bean.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization