8-letter words containing fa
- fattrels — a collection of ribbon-ends
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- faucaria — any succulent plant of the genus Faucaria, comprising several species native to southern Africa and having solitary yellow or white flowers.
- fauchard — a shafted weapon having a knifelike blade with a convex cutting edge and a beak on the back for catching the blade of an aggressor's weapon.
- faulkner — William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.
- faultful — Full of faults or sins.
- faultier — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- faultily — In a faulty manner.
- faulting — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- faunlets — Plural form of faunlet.
- faustian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Faust: a Faustian novel.
- fauteuil — French Furniture. an upholstered armchair, especially one with open sides.
- fauvette — the French name, used by some English writers, for a family of birds more commonly known as warblers
- fauvists — Plural form of fauvist.
- faux fur — artificial animal pelt
- faux pas — a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
- fauxhawk — An imitation of the Mohawk (=UK Mohican) hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
- favelado — a person who lives in a favela.
- faveolus — a small pit or cavity resembling a cell of a honeycomb; alveola.
- favonian — of or relating to the west wind.
- favonius — the ancient Roman personification of the west wind.
- favoring — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- favorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- favorous — Favourable, favorable.
- favosite — any of numerous corals of the extinct genus Favosites, most common during the Silurian and Devonian periods, having polygonal cells with rows of pores in the walls.
- favoured — Treated or regarded with partiality.
- favourer — Alternative form of favorer.
- faxa bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the SW coast of Iceland.
- faxbacks — Plural form of faxback.
- fayalite — the iron end member of the olivine group, Fe 2 SiO 4 .
- film fan — a person who is very fond of watching cinema films
- firefang — combustion taking place in compost due to the heat produced by decomposition
- foofaraw — a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.
- footfall — a footstep.
- foreface — the area of the head that is in front of the eyes: applied especially to four-legged mammals.
- forfairn — worn out
- freefall — free fall (def 1, 2).
- fun fair — an amusement park.
- fur farm — a farm on which animals, as minks, are raised for their pelts.
- galofalo — modern name of Charybdis.
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- gonfalon — a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
- gonfanon — a gonfalon that hangs directly from a pole, especially from the shaft of a lance just below the lance head.
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
- handfast — Archaic. a covenant or contract, especially a betrothal, usually completed by a handclasp.
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- headfast — a mooring rope at the bows of a ship
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?