8-letter words containing o, f, a
- fake-out — prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent): to fake a report showing nonexistent profits.
- falchion — a broad, short sword having a convex edge curving sharply to the point.
- falconer — a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- falderol — mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas.
- fall for — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall off — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall out — an act or instance of falling or dropping from a higher to a lower place or position.
- falloffs — Plural form of falloff.
- fallouts — Plural form of fallout.
- fallower — A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.
- falmouth — a seaport in S Cornwall, in SW England.
- falsetto — an unnaturally or artificially high-pitched voice or register, especially in a man.
- falshood — Obsolete spelling of falsehood.
- faltboat — a small boat having a collapsible wooden frame covered with waterproof cloth or plastic.
- famously — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- fan oven — oven that works by convection
- fan roof — a vaulted roof having fan tracery.
- fan worm — feather-duster worm.
- fanagalo — a lingua franca based on English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu, used especially in the mines of South Africa.
- fanakalo — a lingua franca based on English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu, used especially in the mines of South Africa.
- fandango — a lively Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time, performed by a man and woman playing castanets.
- fanfaron — a braggart.
- fantoosh — pretentious; ostentatious
- far from — not at all
- far gone — departed; left.
- far-gone — remote.
- farinose — yielding farina.
- farm out — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- farmwork — The agricultural work done on a farm.
- farnesol — a colorless, unsaturated, liquid alcohol, C 15 H 26 O, having a slight floral odor, extracted from the flowers of the acacia, cassia oil, or the like: used in perfumery.
- farolito — luminaria.
- farouche — fierce.
- farouk i — 1920–65, last king of Egypt (1936–52). He was forced to abdicate (1952)
- farragos — Plural form of farrago.
- farrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of farrow.
- fasciola — (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- fashions — Plural form of fashion.
- fashiony — of or relating to fashion; fashionable; trendy
- fashious — troublesome, causing worry
- fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
- fastuous — haughty; arrogant.
- fat body — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- fathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fatstock — livestock that has been fattened for market.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- favelado — a person who lives in a favela.
- faveolus — a small pit or cavity resembling a cell of a honeycomb; alveola.