8-letter words containing r, f, c
- frenetic — frantic; frenzied.
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- frescoed — Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture. Compare fresco secco.
- frescoer — a person who paints in fresco
- frescoes — Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture. Compare fresco secco.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- fricking — (euphemistic) Freaking; less offensive euphemism for fucking.
- frickles — Plural form of frickle.
- friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frictive — Of, relating to, or caused by friction.
- frocking — a gown or dress worn by a girl or woman.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- fructify — to bear fruit; become fruitful: With careful tending the plant will fructify.
- fructive — fruitful
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fry cook — a cook who mainly prepares fried foods, as at a lunch counter.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- fulcrums — Plural form of fulcrum.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- furcated — Forked or branched.
- furcraea — a member of a genus of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae native to tropical parts of Central and South America
- furculae — Plural form of furcula.
- furcular — of or relating to the furcula
- furculum — furcula.
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- furuncle — boil2 .
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- horrific — causing horror.
- ice-free — free of ice.
- in force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- jerkface — (slang, vulgar, pejorative) An obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.
- kerchief — a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
- lanfranc — 1005?–89, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and scholar in England: archbishop of Canterbury 1070–89.
- life car — a watertight container used in marine rescue operations, suspended from a hawser and hauled back and forth between a stranded or wrecked vessel and the shore.
- lifecare — the long-term care of the health and welfare of someone, esp an elderly person within a residential community
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- morbific — causing disease.
- mortific — causing death
- muciform — Resembling mucus.
- norcroft — (Contraction of Norman + Mycroft) A company producing C compilers, set up by Arthur Norman and Alan Mycroft. Now "sort of" called Codemist. The original Norcroft compiler was written by Alan and Arthur to provide a platform for teaching languages and compilers on the Cambridge University mainframe. They then went on to develop versions for the transputer, ARM and others.
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- of color — person: not white