8-Letter Words Containing: H,A,F,T,E,R

• like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

• resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers

• characterized by a covering of feathers

• adorned with feathers or plumes

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds

• turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

• join tongue and groove, in carpentry

• cover or fit with feathers

• turn the paddle; in canoeing

• turn the oar, while rowing

• grow feathers

• to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense)

• to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense)

• (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order