8-letter words containing o, f, a
- bar foot — a foot having the form of a bar connecting the corresponding front and rear legs of a piece.
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- bear off — (of a vessel) to avoid hitting an obstacle, another vessel, etc, by swerving onto a different course
- beat off — to drive back; repel
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
- bobfloat — a small buoyant float, usually consisting of a quill stuck through a piece of cork
- body fat — the amount of fat on a person's body
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- boofhead — a stupid person
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- bradford — an industrial city in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire: a centre of the woollen industry from the 14th century and of the worsted trade from the 18th century; university (1966). Pop: 293 717 (2001)
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- califont — a gas water heater
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- call off — If you call off an event that has been planned, you cancel it.
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- cart off — to carry or remove brusquely or by force
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- cast off — If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you.
- cast-off — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- castoffs — Plural form of castoff.
- cat food — tinned food for cats
- cat-foot — to move in the soft, stealthy manner of a cat; pussyfoot.
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
- chanfron — a piece of plate armor for defending a horse's head.
- clafouti — a tart made of fruit, especially cherries, baked in a thick, sweet batter.
- claw off — to avoid the dangers of (a lee shore or other hazard) by beating
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clear of — If something or someone is a certain amount clear of a competitor, they are that amount ahead of them in a competition or race.
- coalface — In a coal mine, the coalface is the part where the coal is being cut out of the rock.
- coalfish — a dark-coloured gadoid food fish, Pollachius virens, occurring in northern seas
- cofactor — a number associated with an element in a square matrix, equal to the determinant of the matrix formed by removing the row and column in which the element appears from the given determinant
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- confocal — having a common focus or common foci
- cornflag — a gladiolus, any iridaceous plant of the genus Gladiolus
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.