8-letter words containing a, t, f, i
- 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.
- infinate — Misspelling of infinite.
- inflated — distended with air or gas; swollen.
- inflater — A pump used to inflate tires.
- inflates — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- inflatus — A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- intifada — (sometimes initial capital letter) a revolt begun in December 1987 by Palestinian Arabs to protest Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- ipatieff — Vladimir Nikolaievich (ˈvlædɪmɪə ˌnɪkəˈlaɪəvɪtʃ). 1867–1952, US physicist, born in Russia. He discovered the structure of isoprene (1897) and later developed high-octane fuels
- isograft — syngraft.
- kalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- lactific — yielding milk
- leafiest — Superlative form of leafy.
- lifeboat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- lifemate — A companion for life.
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- liftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- liftback — hatchback.
- liftgate — hatch2 (def 9b).
- loaf tin — a tin that is used for baking bread
- manifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manshift — the work accomplished by one person in one shift
- mastiffs — Plural form of mastiff.
- 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.
- misfaith — Lack of faith; distrust.
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- natufian — designating or of a Mesolithic culture of the Near East characterized by microliths, sickles, pestles, etc.: it offers the first evidence of reaping and grinding cereals
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- on faith — through trust; without proof or evidence
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- ratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- rfid tag — RFID tags are barcodes that make use of radio waves to send information tracking individual products at every stage, from delivery to stockroom to checkout, in a networked system.
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- safarist — a person on safari
- saltfish — salted cod
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea