8-letter words containing t, a, f
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- fade out — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fade-out — an act or instance of fading.
- faggotry — (pejorative, slang) The quality of being a faggot (homosexual).
- fagoting — a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
- faineant — Also, faineant [fey-nee-uh nt] /ˈfeɪ ni ənt/ (Show IPA). idle; indolent.
- fainites — a cry for truce or respite from the rules of a game
- faintest — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- fainteth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'faint'.
- fainting — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- faintish — Somewhat faint.
- fairmont — a city in W West Virginia.
- faithful — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- faithing — the practice of a faith
- fake out — to deceive or outmaneuver as by a feint, bluff, or deceptive act
- fake-out — prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent): to fake a report showing nonexistent profits.
- fakement — Lb archaic A forgery; something faked.
- falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
- faldetta — a hooded cape worn by Maltese women
- fall out — an act or instance of falling or dropping from a higher to a lower place or position.
- fallouts — Plural form of fallout.
- falmouth — a seaport in S Cornwall, in SW England.
- falsetto — an unnaturally or artificially high-pitched voice or register, especially in a man.
- falstaff — Sir John, the jovial, fat knight of brazen assurance and few scruples in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
- faltboat — a small boat having a collapsible wooden frame covered with waterproof cloth or plastic.
- faltered — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- familist — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- fan belt — (in automotive vehicles) a belt, driven by the crankshaft of an engine, that turns a fan for drawing cooling air through the radiator.
- fanatics — Plural form of fanatic.
- fanatism — Excessive intolerance of opposing views.
- fanciest — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fanlight — a window over a door or another window, especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse.
- fantails — Plural form of fantail.
- fantasia — Music. a composition in fanciful or irregular form or style. a potpourri of well-known airs arranged with interludes and florid embellishments.
- fantasie — Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
- fantasts — Plural form of fantast.
- fantoosh — pretentious; ostentatious
- faq list — frequently asked question
- far east — the countries of E Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and sometimes adjacent areas.
- far left — of or relating to the extreme left wing
- far west — the area of the U.S. west of the Great Plains.
- farebeat — to illegally avoid paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farfetch — (obsolete) Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
- farm out — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- farmette — (US, informal) A small farm.
- farolito — luminaria.
- farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
- farsight — The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
- farthest — being at a great distance; remote in time or place: a far country; the far future.
- farthing — a former bronze coin of Great Britain, equal to one-fourth of a British penny: withdrawn in 1961.