8-letter words containing a, n, f
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- funereal — of or suitable for a funeral.
- funnyman — a comedian or humorist.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- furfuran — furan.
- 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".
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- fusional — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- futanari — (anime, manga, uncountable) A genre of Japanese anime or manga featuring hermaphrodite characters, generally with female bodies plus a penis.
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- golfiana — golfing collectibles
- gonfalon — a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
- gonfanon — a gonfalon that hangs directly from a pole, especially from the shaft of a lance just below the lance head.
- grafting — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- 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.
- half one — 30 minutes after one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, etc
- 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.
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- hand off — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-off — Football. an offensive play in which a player, usually a back, hands the ball to a teammate. the ball itself during the execution of such a transfer: He fumbled the hand-off.
- handcuff — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- handfast — Archaic. a covenant or contract, especially a betrothal, usually completed by a handclasp.
- handfeed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- handfull — Archaic form of handful.
- handfuls — Plural form of handful.
- handoffs — Plural form of handoff, alternative form of 'hand-off'.
- handsful — Plural form of handful.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hoffmann — E(rnst) T(heodor) A(madeus) (Wilhelm) [ernst tey-aw-dohr ah-mah-dey-oo s vil-helm] /ɛrnst ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr ˌɑ mɑˈdeɪ ʊs ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1776–1822, German author, composer, and illustrator.
- in a fix — to repair; mend.
- in a fog — dazed
- in faith — indeed; really
- in favor — in agreement
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- infamies — Plural form of infamy.
- infamize — to make infamous
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infantly — (obsolete) Like an infant.
- infantry — soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons.
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infaunal — the aggregate of animals that burrow into and live in the bottom deposits of an ocean, river, or lake.
- inferiae — (in Roman religion) offerings made to the spirits of the dead, often propitiatory in nature
- infernal — hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.