8-letter words containing t, o, a, f
- nonfatal — causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
- nonfatty — not fatty, not characterized by or composed of fat
- not half — Half is sometimes used in negative statements, with a positive meaning, to emphasize a particular fact or quality. For example, if you say 'he isn't half lucky', you mean that he is very lucky.
- off-beat — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- offstage — off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience (opposed to onstage).
- offtrack — occurring or carried on away from a racetrack: offtrack betting.
- old fart — fart (def 2).
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- olfactor — A smelling organ; a nose.
- on draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- on faith — through trust; without proof or evidence
- outfable — to exceed in creating fables
- outfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outface.
- outfalls — Plural form of outfall.
- outfeast — to exceed in feasting
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- outfloat — to float longer than
- over-fat — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- overfast — too fast
- ozenfant — Amédée [a-mey-dey] /a meɪˈdeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1966, French painter and writer, in the U.S. after 1938.
- pad foot — Furniture. any of various kinds of feet to a cabriole leg, as club, slipper, trifid, or web, having the form of a flattened extension of its lines.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- part-off — a screen used to divide off part of a room, such as the eating place of a parlour
- parts of — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- petaflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of 1015 floating-point operations a second
- pfortran — Parallel Fortran
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- postface — any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface
- q factor — See Q (def 6).
- q-factor — See Q (def 6).
- r factor — a genetic component of some bacteria that provides resistance to antibiotics and can be transferred from one bacterium to another by conjugation.
- ratproof — impenetrable by rats, resistant to rats
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- roof rat — a black rat, Rattus rattus alexandrinus, often found on the upper floors of buildings in warm areas.
- rotflmao — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (arse) off. An extreme form of ROTFL.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- soft hat — a hat made from soft rather than stiff and structured materials
- softback — paperback book
- softball — a form of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a ball that is larger and softer than a baseball.
- softhead — a half-witted or silly person
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- standoff — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- tail off — diminish gradually