8-letter words containing r, s, f
- overfast — too fast
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- oversoft — too soft
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- parts of — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass for — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- pisiform — having the shape of a pea; pea-shaped.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- postform — to remould or reshape plastic after reheating
- prefixes — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
- pressfat — a wine vat
- pressful — the quantity that a press can hold
- profuser — someone or something that is very wasteful of money
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- purseful — an amount which can be contained in a purse
- raftsman — a person who manages or is employed on a raft.
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- refasten — to fasten again
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- reforest — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refresco — a refreshment, as a soft drink.
- refugees — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reinfuse — to infuse again
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- resoften — to make or become soft again
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- riftless — without rift
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- roofless — having no roof.
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
- rousseff — Dilma (ˈdʒiwmɐ). born 1947, Brazilian socialist politician; president of Brazil (2011–16)
- rss feed — Rich Site Summary
- rufisque — a city in W Senegal, E of Dakar.
- rumsfeld — Donald, born 1932, U.S. secretary of defense 1975–77, 2001–06.
- safarist — a person on safari
- saffrony — saffron-coloured
- safranin — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- safronal — an oily liquid derived from saffron
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- scarface — a 1983 cult gangster film written by Oliver Stone, directed by Brian de Palma, and starring Al Pacino.
- scarfing — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae