8-letter words containing r, f
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- deep-fry — If you deep-fry food, you fry it in a large amount of fat or oil.
- deer fly — any of several tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, the female of which is a vector of tularemia in deer, livestock, and humans.
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- defender — If someone is a defender of a particular thing or person that has been criticized, they argue or act in support of that thing or person.
- defensor — One who defends; a defender.
- deferent — (esp of a bodily nerve, vessel, or duct) conveying an impulse, fluid, etc, outwards, down, or away; efferent
- deferral — Deferral means the same as deferment.
- deferred — withheld over a certain period; postponed
- deferrer — to put off (action, consideration, etc.) to a future time: The decision has been deferred by the board until next week.
- deffered — Misspelling of deferred.
- definers — Plural form of definer.
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- deflower — to despoil of beauty, innocence, etc; mar; violate
- defoamer — anything which removes foam or prevents foam from forming
- defogger — A defogger is a device that removes condensation from the window of a vehicle by blowing warm air onto it.
- deforced — Simple past tense and past participle of deforce.
- deforcer — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- deforest — If an area is deforested, all the trees there are cut down or destroyed.
- deformed — disfigured or misshapen
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- defrayed — to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
- defreeze — the process of unfreezing
- defriend — to remove (a person) from the list of one's friends on a social networking website
- defrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrock.
- defrosts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrost.
- defrozen — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- deptford — a district in the Greater London borough of Lewisham, on the S bank of the River Thames: formerly the site of the Royal Naval dockyard
- desulfur — to free from sulfur; desulfurize.
- differed — to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities (often followed by from): The two writers differ greatly in their perceptions of the world. Each writer's style differs from that of another.
- diffract — to break up or bend by diffraction.
- diffuser — a person or thing that diffuses.
- diffusor — a person or thing that diffuses.
- dirgeful — Having the qualities of a dirge; moaning.
- disfavor — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disfrock — to unfrock.
- disproof — the act of disproving.
- done for — past participle of do1 .
- draffish — resembling draff
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- draw off — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).