8-letter words starting with fu
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- fumigate — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- fumingly — In a rage.
- fumitory — any plant of the genus Fumaria, especially a delicate herb, F. officinalis, having finely dissected, grayish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.
- fumosity — the quality or state of being fumous or fumy
- fun fair — an amusement park.
- funafuti — a parliamentary state consisting of a group of islands in the central Pacific, S of the equator: a former British colony; gained independence 1978. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km). Capital: Funafuti.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- fundable — Able to be funded; deserving of funds.
- fundings — Plural form of funding.
- fundless — with no funds
- funerals — Plural form of funeral.
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- funereal — of or suitable for a funeral.
- funfests — Plural form of funfest.
- fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- fungoids — Plural form of fungoid.
- funguses — (nonstandard, rare) Plural form of fungus.
- funhouse — (in an amusement park) a building equipped with trick mirrors, shifting floors, and other devices designed to scare or amuse people as they walk through.
- funiculi — Anatomy. a conducting cord, as a nerve cord or umbilical cord.
- funkhole — a dugout
- funkster — a performer or fan of funk music
- funneled — Simple past tense and past participle of funnel.
- funniest — Superlative form of funny.
- funnyman — a comedian or humorist.
- funnymen — Plural form of funnyman.
- funsters — Plural form of funster.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- fur farm — a farm on which animals, as minks, are raised for their pelts.
- fur seal — any of several eared seals, as Callorhinus alascanus, having a plush underfur used in making coats, trimmings, etc.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- furcated — Forked or branched.
- furcraea — a member of a genus of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae native to tropical parts of Central and South America
- furculae — Plural form of furcula.
- furcular — of or relating to the furcula
- furculum — furcula.
- furfural — a colorless, oily liquid, C 5 H 4 O 2 , having an aromatic odor, obtained from bran, sugar, wood, corncobs, or the like, by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics and as a solvent in the refining of lubricating oils.
- furfuran — furan.
- furfurol — (erroneously) furfural.
- furibund — Choleric, irate, propense to being furious.
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- furmenty — frumenty
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.