7-letter words containing f, a, n
- inflate — deflate
- infract — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infulae — one of the two embroidered lappets of the miter of a bishop.
- ingraft — engraft.
- insofar — to such an extent (usually followed by as): I will do the work insofar as I am able.
- isfahan — a city in central Iran: the capital of Persia from the 16th into the 18th century.
- kaifeng — a city in NE Henan province, in E China: a former provincial capital.
- kaufman — George S(imon) 1889–1961, U.S. dramatist.
- le fanu — (Joseph) Sheridan. 1814–73, Irish writer, best known for his stories of mystery and the supernatural, esp Uncle Silas (1864) and the collection In a Glass Darkly (1872)
- leafing — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- loafing — to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
- mafflin — a simpleton or a half-witted person
- magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
- man flu — a case of the common cold as suffered by a man, implying that he is exaggerating the debilitating effects of the illness
- manifer — a gauntlet for protecting the left hand when holding the reins of a horse.
- munafiq — (Islam) A hypocrite, a person who professes to believe in Islam but actually does not.
- naffing — used to emphasize that something is very poor or inferior
- no fair — not according to the rules
- no fear — certainly not, never
- non-fat — without fat or fat solids; having the fat solids removed, as skim milk: nonfat milk.
- nonfact — a thing that is not true or provable
- nonfarm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- nutfarm — (informal) An insane asylum.
- nutloaf — a savoury loaf made from nuts, vegetables, rice, etc
- offhand — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- omnifax — Alternate name for NYU OMNIFAX? Early system on UNIVAC I or II. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- outfawn — (rare) To exceed in fawning.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- pan-fry — to fry in a small amount of fat, as in a skillet or shallow pan; sauté.
- panfish — any small, freshwater nongame food fish, as a perch or sunfish, usually eaten pan-fried.
- pangfou — Bengbu.
- plafond — a ceiling, whether flat or arched, especially one of decorative character.
- profane — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- propfan — Aeronautics. a turbojet having a turbine-driven propeller that operates completely outside the jet engine.
- raffiné — refined; cultivated
- rafting — a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.
- ratfink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- ruffian — a tough, lawless person; roughneck; bully.
- runflat — (of a motor vehicle) having a safety feature that prevents tyres becoming dangerous or liable to damage when flat
- saffian — a leather made of goatskin or sheepskin, usually dyed in bright colors.
- saffron — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
- salfern — a European branching plant of the borage family
- sandfly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- sanford — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 16,208 feet (4,940 meters).
- sarafan — a Russian woman's cloak
- sarnoff — David, 1891–1971, U.S. businessman and broadcasting executive, born in Russia.
- sea fan — any of certain anthozoans, especially Gorgonia flabellum, of the West Indies, in which the colony assumes a fanlike form.
- snaffle — Also called snaffle bit. a bit, usually jointed in the middle and without a curb, with a large ring at each end to which a rein and cheek strap are attached.
- snafued — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.