8-letter words containing f
- castoffs — Plural form of castoff.
- cat cafe — a business establishment that has numerous cats available for customers to play with, and usually offers food and drinks.
- cat flap — opening in door for cat
- cat flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- cat food — tinned food for cats
- cat-foot — to move in the soft, stealthy manner of a cat; pussyfoot.
- catalufa — any of several bigeyes, as Pristigenys serrula (popeye catalufa) found in the Pacific Ocean.
- catchfly — any of several caryophyllaceous plants of the genus Silene that have sticky calyxes and stems on which insects are sometimes trapped
- catfight — A catfight is an angry fight or quarrel, especially between women.
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- chaffery — the act of bargaining
- chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
- chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
- chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
- chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
- chanfron — a piece of plate armor for defending a horse's head.
- chargaff — Erwin. 1905–2002, US biochemist, born in Austria, noted esp for his work on DNA
- charmful — highly charming or enchanting
- chatfest — (informal) A talkfest.
- chauffer — a small portable heater or stove
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- checkoff — the procedure whereby an employer pays the employee's union dues or other fees straight from his or her salary
- cheekful — the quantity that can be held in or cover a cheek
- cheerful — Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in their behaviour.
- chelifer — Book-scorpion.
- chestful — Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- chiefery — the responsibility and lands belonging to an Irish chief
- chiefess — a chief who is female
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chiffons — Plural form of chiffon.
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- chockful — filled to capacity
- chop off — To chop off something such as a part of someone's body means to cut it off.
- chuffing — (intensifier)
- citified — having the customs, manners, or dress of city people
- cityfied — made into a city.
- clafouti — a tart made of fruit, especially cherries, baked in a thick, sweet batter.
- classify — To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
- claw off — to avoid the dangers of (a lee shore or other hazard) by beating
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clear of — If something or someone is a certain amount clear of a competitor, they are that amount ahead of them in a competition or race.
- clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- clifford — a masculine name: dim. Cliff
- clifftop — A clifftop is the area of land around the top of a cliff.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- clubface — the face of a golf club
- clubfeet — Plural form of clubfoot.