8-letter words containing f, i, a, n, r
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- francize — to force to adopt French customs and the French language.
- franking — The action of franking a letter or parcel.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
- frapping — to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.
- fraulein — an unmarried woman.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- fredaine — a prank; a practical joke
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- friedman — Bruce Jay, born 1930, U.S. novelist.
- friesian — horse
- friulian — a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect spoken by about half a million people of the plains of extreme NE Italy.
- fun fair — an amusement park.
- 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".
- futanari — (anime, manga, uncountable) A genre of Japanese anime or manga featuring hermaphrodite characters, generally with female bodies plus a penis.
- 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.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- in favor — in agreement
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- 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.
- inferiae — (in Roman religion) offerings made to the spirits of the dead, often propitiatory in nature
- infernal — hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.
- inflamer — (usually, figuratively) Something that inflames.
- inflater — A pump used to inflate tires.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- infrared — 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.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- janiform — Janus-faced.
- maniform — shaped like a hand.
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- naviform — Shaped like a boat.
- paraffin — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- raffling — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- rain off — If a sports game is rained off, it has to stop, or it is not able to start, because of rain.
- rainfall — a fall or shower of rain.
- raniform — resembling a frog, froglike
- rat fink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- rifampin — a semisynthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 4 3 H 5 8 N 4 O 1 2 , used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, asymptomatic carriers of meningococcal disease, and leprosy.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- safranin — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.