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8-letter words containing alf

  • alforjas — Plural form of alforja.
  • alfresco — An alfresco activity, especially a meal, is one that takes place in the open air.
  • box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
  • calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
  • calflike — resembling a calf
  • calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
  • coalface — In a coal mine, the coalface is the part where the coal is being cut out of the rock.
  • coalfish — a dark-coloured gadoid food fish, Pollachius virens, occurring in northern seas
  • 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
  • half cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
  • half one — 30 minutes after one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, etc
  • half pay — half one's regular pay.
  • half-cup — half of a cup, equal to 4 fluid ounces (0.1 liter) or 8 tablespoons.
  • half-cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
  • half-day — the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities had to be carried on during the day.
  • half-lie — something that a person says or writes that they know to be partly untrue
  • half-mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
  • half-pie — poorly planned or conceived
  • half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
  • half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
  • half-wit — a person who is feeble-minded.
  • halfback — Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
  • halfbeak — any of several marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae, having a greatly elongated lower jaw.
  • halfcock — The position when the cock of a gun as at the first notch.
  • halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
  • halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
  • halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
  • halfness — The quality of being half; incompleteness.
  • halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
  • halfpipe — Alternative form of half-pipe.
  • halftime — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
  • halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
  • halfwits — Plural form of halfwit.
  • halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
  • jalfrezi — A style of curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis.
  • mooncalf — a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
  • not half — Half is sometimes used in negative statements, with a positive meaning, to emphasize a particular fact or quality. For example, if you say 'he isn't half lucky', you mean that he is very lucky.
  • pedalfer — a soil rich in alumina and iron, with few or no carbonates.
  • sea calf — harbor seal.

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