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11-letter words containing f, a, i, n

  • functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
  • fund-raiser — a person who solicits contributions or pledges.
  • fundraisers — Plural form of fundraiser.
  • fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
  • funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
  • funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
  • fungistatic — (of a substance or preparation) inhibiting the growth of a fungus.
  • furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
  • fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
  • fustigating — Present participle of fustigate.
  • fustigation — A beating with a club.
  • fustilirian — a person who uses a cudgel rather than a sword; hence, a lowly person or a commoner (from Henry IV by William Shakespeare)
  • gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
  • gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
  • gas fitting — the work or business of a gas fitter.
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
  • gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
  • grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
  • grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
  • grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
  • graniferous — bearing grain
  • granitiform — resembling granite
  • granuliform — having a granular structure
  • grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
  • guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
  • half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
  • half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
  • half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
  • half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
  • half-minute — 30 seconds
  • half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
  • han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
  • handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
  • handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
  • handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
  • hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
  • hit the fan — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
  • honorifical — honorific
  • i formation — an offensive alignment in which the backs are positioned in line directly behind the quarterback.
  • if anything — on the contrary
  • if you want — as you please
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