8-letter words containing f, i, n, a
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- flippant — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- florican — any of various smaller species of bustards.
- fluorian — (geology) containing fluorine.
- foilsman — a person who fences with a foil.
- fomorian — one of a race of pirates or sea demons who raided and pillaged Ireland but were finally defeated: sometimes associated with the hostile powers of nature.
- fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- for gain — If you do something for gain, you do it in order to get some advantage or profit for yourself, and for no other reason.
- foraging — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- foramina — an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- forfairn — worn out
- formalin — a clear, colorless, aqueous solution of 40 percent formaldehyde.
- fornical — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- fountain — a spring or source of water; the source or head of a stream.
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fragging — to kill, wound, or assault (especially an unpopular or overzealous superior) with a fragmentation grenade.
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- framings — Plural form of framing.
- francais — (borrowed) The French language.
- francaix — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1912–1997, French composer.
- francine — a female given name, form of Frances.
- 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.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- fun fair — an amusement park.
- funafuti — a parliamentary state consisting of a group of islands in the central Pacific, S of the equator: a former British colony; gained independence 1978. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km). Capital: Funafuti.
- 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".
- fusional — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- futanari — (anime, manga, uncountable) A genre of Japanese anime or manga featuring hermaphrodite characters, generally with female bodies plus a penis.
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- golfiana — golfing collectibles