8-letter words containing af
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- haftarah — a portion of the Prophets that is chanted or read in the synagogue on the Sabbath and holy days immediately after the Parashah.
- hakafoth — a ceremony on Simhath Torah and on other occasions in which members of a synagogue congregation carry Torah scrolls around the synagogue seven or more times.
- halafian — of or belonging to the Neolithic culture chiefly of northern Syria, dating to the fifth millennium b.c. and characterized by adobe dwellings and polychrome pottery decorated with animal designs and geometric patterns.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- isograft — syngraft.
- jafaican — a dialect of English spoken in London, with marked Jamaican influences
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.
- laceleaf — a submerged aquatic plant, Aponogeton madagascariensis, of Madagascar, having tiny white flowers and broad leaves consisting only of veins that float just beneath the surface.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- lavaform — in the form of lava
- layshaft — an auxiliary shaft in a gearbox, running parallel to the main shaft, to and from which drive is transferred to enable varying ratios to be obtained
- leaf bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- leaf fat — a layer of fat that surrounds the kidneys, especially of a hog.
- leaf gap — (in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.
- leaf tea — tea sold in the form of leaves, rather than in tea bags
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- leafiest — Superlative form of leafy.
- leafless — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leaflets — Plural form of leaflet.
- leaflike — Having the form or other qualities of a leaf.
- leaflove — An African bulbul that frequents dense thickets, with mainly drab brown plumage and a loud bubbling call.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- llandaff — a town in SE Wales, now a suburb of Cardiff; the oldest bishopric in Wales (6th century)
- loaf pan — a rectangular metal or glass pan for baking cakes, breads, meatloaf, etc.
- loaf tin — a tin that is used for baking bread
- longleaf — A longleaf pine, Pirus palustris, or the wood of this tree.
- lylafklc — (chat) Love you like a fat kid loves cake.
- mafeking — a town in N Republic of South Africa: former administrative seat of Bechuanaland; besieged for 217 days by Boers 1899–1900.
- mafikeng — a town in N South Africa: besieged by the Boers for 217 days (1899–1900) during the second Boer War: administrative headquarters of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland until 1965, although outside its borders. Pop: 23 650 (2001)
- meatloaf — A dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- metafile — (graphics, file format) 1. An image file format for transport between different machines, often as a device independent bitmap. 2. A functional specification for encoding computer graphics for later display on some suitable device.
- metafont — A system for the design of raster-based alphabets by Donald Knuth. A companion to TeX.
- misgraff — badly matched
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- naff off — unstylish; lacking taste; inferior.
- niffnaff — a trifle, knick-knack, or petty detail
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- oak leaf — the leaf of an oak tree
- on draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- overleaf — on the other side of the page or sheet.
- pan loaf — a loaf of bread with a light crust all the way round
- paraffin — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.