8-letter words containing o, f, t, r
- rotproof — resistant to rotting.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
- short of — having little length; not long.
- soft roe — milt (def 2).
- soft rot — a disease of fruits and vegetables, characterized by a soft, watery decay of affected parts, caused by any of several bacteria or fungi.
- softcore — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- softener — Chemistry. any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its softness, smoothness, or plasticity. water softener.
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stormful — having many storms; stormy
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- take for — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- tear off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- tear-off — designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- therefor — for or in exchange for that or this; for it: a refund therefor.
- tradeoff — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trafford — a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 211 800 (2003 est). Area: 106 sq km (41 sq miles)
- trifocal — Optics. having three foci.
- trothful — faithful or loyal
- troutful — (of a river, stream, lake or other body of water) full of trout
- tubiform — shaped like a tube.
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- turf out — remove, eject
- turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn-off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- two-four — a box containing 24 bottles of beer
- up front — of or relating to the front.
- up-front — invested or paid in advance or as beginning capital: an up-front fee of five percent and an additional five percent when the job is done.
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- wetproof — waterproof.
- what for — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- worthful — full of worth or merit.
- writeoff — Alternative spelling of write-off.
- x factor — an unknown or unexplained element that makes something more interesting or valuable
- y-fronts — Y-fronts are men's or boys' underwear with an opening at the front.
- zoograft — animal tissue grafted to a human body, as in transplants, etc