8-letter words containing a, f, t, e
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- defatted — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- defeated — having suffered defeat; beaten
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- defecate — When people and animals defecate, they get rid of waste matter from their body through their anus.
- definate — Misspelling of definite.
- deflated — having lost confidence, hope, or optimism
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflate.
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- deskfast — breakfast eaten at one's desk at work
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- ear tuft — a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.
- engrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engraft.
- fabulate — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- face out — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- 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.
- factored — Simple past tense and past participle of factor.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- fade out — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fade-out — an act or instance of fading.
- faineant — Also, faineant [fey-nee-uh nt] /ˈfeɪ ni ənt/ (Show IPA). idle; indolent.
- fainites — a cry for truce or respite from the rules of a game
- faintest — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- fainteth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'faint'.
- fake out — to deceive or outmaneuver as by a feint, bluff, or deceptive act
- fake-out — prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent): to fake a report showing nonexistent profits.
- fakement — Lb archaic A forgery; something faked.
- falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
- faldetta — a hooded cape worn by Maltese women
- falsetto — an unnaturally or artificially high-pitched voice or register, especially in a man.
- faltered — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- fan belt — (in automotive vehicles) a belt, driven by the crankshaft of an engine, that turns a fan for drawing cooling air through the radiator.
- fanciest — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fantasie — Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
- far east — the countries of E Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and sometimes adjacent areas.
- far left — of or relating to the extreme left wing
- far west — the area of the U.S. west of the Great Plains.
- farebeat — to illegally avoid paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farfetch — (obsolete) Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
- farmette — (US, informal) A small farm.
- farthest — being at a great distance; remote in time or place: a far country; the far future.
- fasciate — bound with a band, fillet, or bandage.