8-letter words containing f, i, l, n
- inflexed — inflected; bent or folded downward or inward: an inflexed leaf.
- inflexes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflex.
- inflicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflict.
- inflight — done, served, or shown during an air voyage: an in-flight movie.
- influent — flowing in.
- influxes — Plural form of influx.
- infolded — Simple past tense and past participle of infold.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- ingulfed — Simple past tense and past participle of ingulf.
- kinfolks — Plural form of kinfolk.
- kinsfolk — Alternative spelling of kinfolk.
- landfill — a low area of land that is built up from deposits of solid refuse in layers covered by soil.
- leftwing — Alternative spelling of left-wing.
- leontief — Wassily [vah-see-lee] /vɑˈsi li/ (Show IPA), 1906–1999, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1973.
- liefling — (South Africa) One held as lief or dear; a darling.
- life net — a strong net or the like held by firefighters or others to catch persons jumping from a burning building.
- lifeline — a line, fired across a ship or boat, by means of which a hawser for a breeches buoy may be hauled aboard.
- lifelong — lasting or continuing through all or much of one's life: lifelong regret.
- lifeness — (rare, philosophy) The state or quality of having a life.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- liftings — Plural form of lifting.
- like fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- lintfree — Free of lint.
- lionfish — a brightly striped scorpionfish of the genus Pterois, especially P. volitans, of the Indo-Pacific region, having long, flamboyant, venomous spiny fins.
- loaf tin — a tin that is used for baking bread
- lobefins — Plural form of lobefin.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- manifold — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
- mindfull — Archaic form of mindful.
- muffling — Present participle of muffle.
- nailfile — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- nailfold — the fold of skin at the base of the fingernail
- new life — fresh start, reinvented existence
- nieveful — a fistful, the quantity that may be contained in a closed fist
- niflheim — a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.
- ninefold — nine times as great or as much.
- noiseful — characterized by loud noise; noisy
- nonfinal — not final or decisive
- nonfluid — a substance that is not a fluid
- nuffield — William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield. 1877–1963, English motorcar manufacturer and philanthropist. He endowed Nuffield College at Oxford (1937) and the Nuffield Foundation (1943), a charitable trust for the furtherance of medicine and education
- off-line — Computers. operating independently of, or disconnected from, an associated computer.
- oil find — the discovery of oil deposits underground or under the sea
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- olefinic — Characteristic of, or containing olefins.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- penfield — Wilder. 1891–1976, Canadian scientist, neurosurgeon, and writer born in the US; he developed a surgical treatment for epilepsy
- piffling — of little worth; trifling; piddling: piffling efforts.
- plainful — sad and mournful
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.