8-letter words containing f, l, a, n
- farmland — land under cultivation or capable of being cultivated: to protect valuable farmland from erosion.
- farnesol — a colorless, unsaturated, liquid alcohol, C 15 H 26 O, having a slight floral odor, extracted from the flowers of the acacia, cassia oil, or the like: used in perfumery.
- farnesyl — (biochemistry) The univalent radical derived from farnesol.
- faulkner — William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.
- faulting — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- faunlets — Plural form of faunlet.
- fellahin — a native peasant or laborer in Egypt, Syria, etc.
- fenagled — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- fenlands — Plural form of fenland.
- fentanyl — a synthetic, short-acting narcotic analgesic and sedative, C 22 H 28 N 2 O, used pharmacologically in anesthesia and neuroleptanalgesia, and also as an illicit drug: Medics quickly administered fentanyl to the injured soldiers. Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.
- fernally — a seedless plant that is not a true fern
- ferndale — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- filament — a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold.
- filander — a former name for the pademelon, a small wallaby of the genus Thylogale
- filename — an identifying name given to an electronically stored computer file, conforming to limitations imposed by the operating system, as in length or restricted choice of characters.
- filipina — a female native or inhabitant of the Philippines
- film fan — a person who is very fond of watching cinema films
- filmland — filmdom.
- finagled — Simple past tense and past participle of finagle.
- finagler — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- finagles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finagle.
- finalise — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- finalism — the doctrine or belief that all events are determined by their purposes or goals.
- finalist — a person entitled to participate in the final or decisive contest in a series, as in musical or athletic competition.
- finality — the state, quality, or fact of being final; conclusiveness or decisiveness.
- finalize — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- findable — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fineable — subject to a fine; punishable by a fine.
- flacking — press agent.
- flagging — becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling.
- flagrant — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flailing — an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
- flame on — (messaging, jargon) To begin or continue to flame. The punning reference to Marvel Comics's Human Torch is no longer widely recognised. The phrase "flame on" may actually precede the flame, in which case "flame off" will follow it. See rave, burble.
- flamenco — a style of dancing, characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies, that is strongly rhythmic and involves vigorous actions, as clapping the hands and stamping the feet.
- flamingo — any of several aquatic birds of the family Phoenicopteridae, having very long legs and neck, webbed feet, a bill bent downward at the tip, and pinkish to scarlet plumage.
- flamings — Plural form of flaming.
- flamming — a deception or trick.
- flanagan — Edward Joseph ("Father Flanagan") 1886–1948, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, born in Ireland: founder of a farm village for wayward boys.
- flancard — a piece of armour covering a horse's flank
- flanders — a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the adjacent parts of N France and SW Netherlands.
- flanerie — idleness; dawdling.
- flaneurs — Plural form of flaneur.
- flanging — (music) a time-based audio effect produced when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds.
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flannels — Plural form of flannel.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)
- flanning — Architecture. the splay of a sconcheon.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flapping — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.