8-letter words containing w, f
- fly swat — fly swatter.
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- flyblows — the eggs or young larvae of a blowfly, deposited on meat, paper, etc
- flywheel — a heavy disk or wheel rotating on a shaft so that its momentum gives almost uniform rotational speed to the shaft and to all connected machinery.
- flywhisk — a device for brushing away flies, often made of horsehair.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- followed — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- follower — a person or thing that follows.
- followup — the act of following.
- food web — a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.
- foodways — the customs and traditions relating to food and its preparation
- foofaraw — a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- footways — Plural form of footway.
- footwear — articles to be worn on the feet, as shoes, slippers, or boots.
- footwell — a recessed compartment in front of the seats of a vehicle.
- footwork — the use of the feet, as in tennis, boxing, or dancing.
- footworn — worn down by the feet: a footworn pavement.
- for show — in order to impress, for display only
- forcetwo — An unofficial successor to ForceOne by Andrew K. Wright.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- forepaws — Plural form of forepaw.
- foreshow — to show beforehand.
- forewall — The foremost outer wall of a fortification.
- foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
- forewarn — to warn in advance.
- forewent — simple past tense of forego1 .
- forewind — a favourable wind
- forewing — either of the anterior and usually smaller pair of wings of an insect having four wings.
- forewish — (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
- foreword — a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, especially when written by someone other than the author.
- foreworn — forworn.
- formwork — the structure of boards, bolts, etc., composing a form for poured-concrete or rammed-earth construction.
- forswatt — sweat-covered
- forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- forswink — to exhaust through toil
- forswore — Simple past form of foreswear.
- forsworn — past participle of forswear.
- forswunk — overworked
- forwards — forward.
- forwaste — to waste completely
- forweary — to exhaust
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- fox wiki — (application) A wiki for the Fox (Free Objects for Crystallography) software.
- freetown — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
- freeview — In Britain, Freeview is a free service providing digital terrestrial television.
- freeware — computer software distributed without charge.