8-letter words containing r, s, f
- frijoles — any bean of the genus Phaseolus, especially the kidney bean, the seeds of which are used for food in Mexico, in the southwestern U.S., etc.
- frillies — women's underwear, esp when particularly frilly
- fringers — Plural form of fringer.
- frisette — a fringe of curled or frizzed hair, usually artificial, worn on the forehead by women.
- friskers — Plural form of frisker.
- friskets — Plural form of frisket.
- friskful — frolicsome; lively
- friskily — In a frisky manner.
- frisking — Present participle of frisk.
- frissons — Plural form of frisson.
- fritters — Plural form of fritter.
- frizzies — Plural form of frizzy.
- frizzles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frizzle.
- frogfish — any tropical marine fish of the family Antennariidae, having a wide, froglike mouth and broad, limblike pectoral fins.
- froggies — Plural form of froggy.
- frondose — bearing fronds.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- fronters — Plural form of fronter.
- frontons — Plural form of fronton.
- froshing — Present participle of frosh.
- frostbit — injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.
- frostier — Comparative form of frosty.
- frostily — characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold: frosty weather.
- frosting — a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
- frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
- frowster — a person who enjoys being in a hot and stale atmosphere
- 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.
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- frustule — the siliceous cell wall of a diatom.
- frustums — Plural form of frustum.
- fud wars — /fuhd worz/ Political posturing, intended to create FUD, engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardisation but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example.
- fuehrers — Plural form of fuehrer.
- fulcrums — Plural form of fulcrum.
- fumarase — an enzyme found in liver and muscle which acts as a catalyst in the inter-conversion of fumarate and malate
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- funerals — Plural form of funeral.
- funkster — a performer or fan of funk music
- funsters — Plural form of funster.
- fur seal — any of several eared seals, as Callorhinus alascanus, having a plush underfur used in making coats, trimmings, etc.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- furphies — Plural form of furphy.
- furriers — Plural form of furrier.
- fursuits — Plural form of fursuit.
- furthers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of further.
- furthest — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.
- fusarole — a type of architectural moulding often found below the echinus or quarter round of a column