9-letter words containing f, a, n
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- influenza — Pathology. an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration. Compare flu.
- infomania — Impairment of concentration caused by frequent response to text messages, e-mails, and other forms of digital communication.
- informant — a person who informs or gives information; informer.
- infra dig — beneath one's dignity.
- infra-red — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infractor — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infradian — (of a rhythm or cycle ) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day.
- infuriate — to make furious; enrage.
- infuscate — darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
- infusoria — Irregular plural form of infusorium.
- ingrafted — engraft.
- intefadeh — Alternative spelling of intifada.
- interface — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interleaf — an additional leaf, usually blank, inserted between or bound with the regular printed leaves of a book, as to separate chapters or provide room for a reader's notes.
- jackknife — a large pocketknife.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- kauffmann — Angelica (andʒeˈlikə). 1741–1807, Swiss painter, who worked chiefly in England
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- lace-fern — a small, tufted fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, having dark-brown stalks and fronds about 4 inches (10.2 cm) long.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- landfalls — Plural form of landfall.
- landfills — Plural form of landfill.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- landforms — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- leafiness — The state or condition of being leafy.
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- leftenant — Archaic form of lieutenant.
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- load fund — a mutual fund that carries transaction charges, usually a percentage of the initial investment.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- long face — an unhappy or gloomy expression: He's been walking around with a long face ever since he failed the examination.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- magnifico — a Venetian nobleman.
- magnified — Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
- magnifier — a person or thing that magnifies.
- magnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magnify.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- manfriend — A male friend.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.