8-letter words containing o, f, r, a
- foulmart — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- foumarts — Plural form of foumart.
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fourball — a match for two pairs in which each player uses his own ball, the better score of each pair being counted at every hole
- fourplay — Quad play.
- foveolar — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- frabjous — wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- frailero — an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
- frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- frontman — a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- fusarole — a type of architectural moulding often found below the echinus or quarter round of a column
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- graffito — Archaeology. an ancient drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface.
- gray fox — a fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, ranging from Central America through the southwestern and eastern U.S., having blackish-gray upper parts and rusty-yellowish feet, legs, and ears.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- hartford — a state in the NE United States. 5009 sq. mi. (12,975 sq. km). Capital: Hartford. Abbreviation: Conn., Ct., CT (for use with zip code).
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- head for — go towards, go to
- how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?
- in favor — in agreement
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- isograft — syngraft.
- jamproof — built so as to prevent jamming: a jamproof copying machine.
- janiform — Janus-faced.
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.