7-letter words containing f, i, n, t
- footing — the basis or foundation on which anything is established.
- forints — Plural form of forint.
- fprintf — (library) Variant of the C library routine printf which prints to a given stream. E.g.
- frantic — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- frontis — the front wall of a cancha or jai alai court. Compare rebote (def 1).
- furmint — a variety of grape from which Tokay is made.
- fustian — a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
- futzing — Present participle of futz.
- gifting — something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
- hefting — weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
- in fact — something that actually exists; reality; truth: Your fears have no basis in fact.
- in fits — Someone who is in fits is laughing uncontrollably.
- indraft — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- infanta — a daughter of the king of Spain or of Portugal.
- infante — any son of the king of Spain or of Portugal who is not heir to the throne.
- infants — Plural form of infant.
- infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infaust — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.
- infects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infect.
- infests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infest.
- infight — to box, or otherwise fight, at close quarters; to engage in infighting
- inflate — deflate
- inflect — to modulate (the voice).
- inflict — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- infobot — (chat) A bot that serves as a common database of information (often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system. Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, responding to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries. Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":
can someone tell me what: $num9 = substr($number,9,1); means eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr". just tell me Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go look it up in the dictionary"?! eesh -- no. that's all we'll tell you. read the documentation. eesh -- if you haven't man pages or perldoc, you can read them on the 'net. purl, perlfunc? well, perlfunc is Perl builtin functions, at man perlfunc or http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/. - infract — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- ingraft — engraft.
- introfy — to improve the ability of (a sanitary towel, nappy, etc) to absorb liquid
- lifting — Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
- lofting — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- netfind — A research prototype that provides a simple Internet "white pages" user directory. It runs on SunOS 4.0 or more recent systems that are connected to the Internet (however, you can run Netfind on one server at your site, and let the others use Netfind on that server). Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of where the person works, Netfind attempts to locate telephone and electronic mailbox information about the person.
- niftily — In a nifty manner; cleverly.
- nitrify — to oxidize (ammonia, ammonium compounds, or atmospheric nitrogen) to nitrites, nitrates, or their respective acids, especially by bacterial action.
- outfind — to find out or discover
- pontiff — any pontifex.
- rafting — a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.
- ratfink — fink (defs 3, 4).
- rifting — an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- sifting — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- snifter — Also called inhaler. a pear-shaped glass, narrowing at the top to intensify the aroma of brandy, liqueur, etc.
- stiffen — to make stiff.
- tailfan — the fanned structure at the hind end of a lobster or related crustacean, formed from the telson and uropods
- tailfin — the fin situated at the tail of a fish
- texinfo — A GNU documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output. You can read the on-line information, known as an "Info file", with an Info documentation-reading program. By convention, Texinfo source file names end with a ".texi" or ".texinfo" extension. You can write and format Texinfo files into Info files within GNU Emacs, and read them using the Emacs Info reader. If you do not have Emacs, you can format Texinfo files into Info files using "makeinfo" and read them using "info". TeX is used to typeset Texinfo files for printing. Texinfo is available from your nearest GNU archive site.
- tiffany — a sheer, mesh fabric constructed in plain weave, originally made of silk but now often made of cotton or synthetic fibers.
- tiffing — a slight or petty quarrel.
- tinfoil — tin, or an alloy of tin and lead, in the form of a thin sheet, much used as a wrapping for drugs, foods, tobacco, etc.
- tufting — a bunch or cluster of small, usually soft and flexible parts, as feathers or hairs, attached or fixed closely together at the base and loose at the upper ends.
- turfing — a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
- unfaith — lack of faith, especially religious faith; unbelief.