8-letter words containing r, f
- bowfront — having a front that curves outwards
- 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)
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
- buffered — an apparatus at the end of a railroad car, railroad track, etc., for absorbing shock during coupling, collisions, etc.
- bullfrog — A bullfrog is a type of large frog which makes a very loud noise.
- burn off — If someone burns off energy, they use it.
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- c-refine — A preprocessor for C and languages with similar syntax by Lutz Prechelt <[email protected]>. C-Refine allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. Version 3.0 is available from comp.sources.reviewed archives. It is highly portable and has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga.
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- cafe car — a railroad car, part of which is used as a diner and part as a lounge, smoker, etc.
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- carefree — A carefree person or period of time doesn't have or involve any problems, worries, or responsibilities.
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carfares — Plural form of carfare.
- carfaxes — Plural form of carfax.
- carnifex — an executioner
- cart off — to carry or remove brusquely or by force
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- chaffery — the act of bargaining
- chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
- chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
- chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
- chanfron — a piece of plate armor for defending a horse's head.
- chargaff — Erwin. 1905–2002, US biochemist, born in Austria, noted esp for his work on DNA
- charmful — highly charming or enchanting
- chauffer — a small portable heater or stove
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- cheerful — Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in their behaviour.
- chelifer — Book-scorpion.
- chiefery — the responsibility and lands belonging to an Irish chief
- 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.
- clifford — a masculine name: dim. Cliff
- codifier — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- 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
- coffered — decorated with coffers
- cofiring — combustion of two different types of fuel at the same time
- coiffeur — a hairdresser
- coiffure — A person's coiffure is their hairstyle.
- coliform — relating to the bacilli that are present in the intestines of humans and invertebrate animals
- colorful — Something that is colorful has bright colors or a lot of different colors.