8-letter words containing fi
- bluffing — to mislead by a display of strength, self-confidence, or the like: He bluffed me into believing that he was a doctor.
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- box file — a rigid file which opens like a box, usually made of strong cardboard and able to hold a large quantity of documents
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bunfight — a tea party
- 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
- 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.
- calcific — forming or causing to form lime or chalk
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- 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
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
- chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
- chuffing — (intensifier)
- citified — having the customs, manners, or dress of city people
- cityfied — made into a city.
- coalfish — a dark-coloured gadoid food fish, Pollachius virens, occurring in northern seas
- codified — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- codifier — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- codifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of codify.
- coffined — Simple past tense and past participle of coffin.
- cofiring — combustion of two different types of fuel at the same time
- coiffing — coiffure (defs 1, 3).
- comfiest — comfortable.
- confided — Simple past tense and past participle of confide.
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- confinee — a person held in confinement.
- confiner — One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- confines — limits; boundaries
- confirme — Obsolete spelling of confirm.
- confirms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confirm.
- confixed — Simple past tense and past participle of confix.
- cookfire — A fire used for cooking food.
- cornific — producing horns
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- crucifix — A crucifix is a cross with a figure of Christ on it.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
- deficits — the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.