8-letter words containing f
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- banoffee — a filling for a pie, consisting of toffee and banana
- bar food — food served in a pub
- bar foot — a foot having the form of a bar connecting the corresponding front and rear legs of a piece.
- barefoot — Someone who is barefoot or barefooted is not wearing anything on their feet.
- barf bag — Slang. a disposable paper bag provided by airlines for each passenger in the event of air sickness and usually placed in the pocket behind every seat.
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- barfmail — (messaging) Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or misbehaves.
- bashfull — Archaic form of bashful.
- basified — Simple past tense and past participle of basify.
- basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
- basinful — As much as a basin will hold.
- bay leaf — A bay leaf is a leaf of an evergreen tree that can be dried and used as a herb in cooking.
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- bear off — (of a vessel) to avoid hitting an obstacle, another vessel, etc, by swerving onto a different course
- beat off — to drive back; repel
- beatific — A beatific expression shows or expresses great happiness and calmness.
- beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
- beautify — If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful.
- beckford — William. 1759–1844, English writer and dilettante; author of the oriental romance Vathek (1787)
- bedeafen — to deafen
- bedframe — the framework of a bed
- beef tea — a drink made by boiling pieces of lean beef: often given to invalids to stimulate the appetite
- beefcake — Attractive men with large muscles can be referred to as beefcake.
- beefless — not containing beef, without beef
- beefwood — any of various trees that produce very hard wood, esp the Australian tree Casuarina equisetifolia, widely planted in warm regions
- beerfest — a beer festival
- befallen — to happen or occur.
- befinger — to finger all over
- befinned — having fins
- beflower — to decorate with flowers
- befouled — to make dirty or filthy; soil; defile; sully: a bird that befouls its own nest.
- befriend — If you befriend someone, especially someone who is lonely or far from home, you make friends with them.
- befringe — to decorate with a fringe
- befuddle — If something befuddles you, it confuses your mind or thoughts.
- belfried — with a belfry
- bellyful — as much as one wants or can eat
- bemuffle — to muffle, wrap up warmly
- benefact — to be a benefactor to
- benefice — an endowed Church office yielding an income to its holder; a Church living
- benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.
- benfleet — a town in SE England, in S Essex on an inlet of the Thames estuary. Pop: 48 539 (2001)
- bergfall — an avalanche
- best fit — (algorithm) A resource allocation scheme (usually for memory). Best Fit allocates resources in a way that optimises some parameter. Alternative schemes such as first fit or random allocation are likely to be quicker but sub-optimal in use of resources. For example, when allocating a new block of memory from a pool of free blocks (a heap), one might choose the smallest space which is big enough. This would leave larger spaces free to satisfy larger requests and reduce fragmentation of the remaining free space.
- bid fair — to seem probable
- bifacial — having two faces or surfaces
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- biforked — two-pronged
- big fish — If you describe someone as a big fish, you believe that they are powerful or important in some way.