8-letter words containing fa
- duckface — Informal. a facial expression in which the lips are pressed together and pushed forward, especially in a photograph.
- effacing — Present participle of efface.
- epifauna — animals that live on the seabed surface
- evenfall — Dusk, twilight.
- f factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- f-factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- fabiform — Shaped like a bean.
- fabliaux — Plural form of fabliau.
- fabulate — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fabulize — To compose or relate fables or fictions.
- fabulous — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- facadism — the principle or practice of preserving the fronts of buildings that have elegant architectural designs; the construction of a modern building behind its old or original front.
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face out — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-off — the act of facing the puck, as at the start of a game or period.
- faceable — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- faceache — (UK, informal) A miserable-looking person.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- facedown — with the face or the front or upper surface downward: He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.
- faceless — without a face: a faceless apparition.
- facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- facemail — a computer program which uses an electronically generated face to deliver messages on screen
- facemask — a mask worn to prevent the inhalation of fumes, or to avoid spreading germs
- facepalm — the gesture of placing the palm of one's hand across the face, as to express embarrassment, frustration, disbelief, etc. (often used as an interjection): She read the post and comments and did a facepalm. Okay, that was dumb—facepalm!
- facetiae — Pornographic literature.
- facetime — Alternative form of face time.
- faceting — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- facetted — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- faceward — Toward the face.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- facially — of the face: facial expression.
- facilely — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- facility — Often, facilities. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility. something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- factored — Simple past tense and past participle of factor.
- factotum — a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- fade out — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fade-out — an act or instance of fading.
- fadeaway — an act or instance of fading away.
- fadeless — not fading or diminishing; unfading.
- faeroese — a native or inhabitant of the Faeroe Islands.
- faesulae — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany near Florence: Etruscan and Roman remains. Pop: 14 085 (2001)