8-letter words containing f
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
- buffable — able to be buffed
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- buffered — an apparatus at the end of a railroad car, railroad track, etc., for absorbing shock during coupling, collisions, etc.
- buffeted — a blow, as with the hand or fist.
- bulb fly — a hoverfly, the larvae of which live in bulbs and can become serious pests, esp the yellow and black narcissus bulb fly (Meridon equestris)
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bullfrog — A bullfrog is a type of large frog which makes a very loud noise.
- bumfluff — the soft and fluffy growth of hair on the chin of an adolescent
- bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
- bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bunk off — If you bunk off from school or work, you leave without permission and do something else.
- burn off — If someone burns off energy, they use it.
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- buzz off — If someone buzzes off, they go away. People sometimes say buzz off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- c-refine — A preprocessor for C and languages with similar syntax by Lutz Prechelt <[email protected]>. C-Refine allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. Version 3.0 is available from comp.sources.reviewed archives. It is highly portable and has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga.
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- cafe car — a railroad car, part of which is used as a diner and part as a lounge, smoker, etc.
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- caffeine — Caffeine is a chemical substance found in coffee, tea, and cocoa, which affects your brain and body and makes you more active.
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- caitiffs — Plural form of caitiff.
- calcific — forming or causing to form lime or chalk
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calflike — resembling a calf
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- califont — a gas water heater
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- call off — If you call off an event that has been planned, you cancel it.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camshaft — A camshaft is a rod in an engine and works to change circular motion into motion up and down or from side to side.
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
- carefree — A carefree person or period of time doesn't have or involve any problems, worries, or responsibilities.
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- carfares — Plural form of carfare.
- carfaxes — Plural form of carfax.
- carnifex — an executioner
- cart off — to carry or remove brusquely or by force
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- cast off — If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you.
- cast-off — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.