8-letter words containing f, o, n
- gonfalon — a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
- gonfanon — a gonfalon that hangs directly from a pole, especially from the shaft of a lance just below the lance head.
- griffons — Plural form of griffon.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- half one — 30 minutes after one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, etc
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- hand off — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-off — Football. an offensive play in which a player, usually a back, hands the ball to a teammate. the ball itself during the execution of such a transfer: He fumbled the hand-off.
- handoffs — Plural form of handoff, alternative form of 'hand-off'.
- hindfoot — A rear foot.
- hoffmann — E(rnst) T(heodor) A(madeus) (Wilhelm) [ernst tey-aw-dohr ah-mah-dey-oo s vil-helm] /ɛrnst ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr ˌɑ mɑˈdeɪ ʊs ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1776–1822, German author, composer, and illustrator.
- honeyful — full of honey
- horn fly — a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, especially of cattle.
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- in a fog — dazed
- in favor — in agreement
- in flood — If a river is in flood, it is flowing over its banks because it has more water in it than normal.
- in focus — seen clearly
- in folio — in the form or size of a folio
- in force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- in front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- inferior — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
- infernos — Plural form of inferno.
- infixion — to fix, fasten, or drive in: He infixed the fatal spear.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- infobahn — information superhighway.
- infodump — Alternative spelling of info-dump.
- infolded — Simple past tense and past participle of infold.
- infoporn — Information which does not serve a purpose other than to hold the attention of its audience; information for information's sake.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- informed — having or prepared with information or knowledge; apprised: an informed audience that asked intelligent questions.
- informee — One who is informed, who receives information.
- informer — a person who informs against another, especially for money or other reward.
- informix — A relational DBMS vendor.
- infoseek — (company) A company providing InfoSeek Net Search, a free web search service which, in August 1995, indexed the full text of over 400,000 web pages. Net Search was rated as the fourth most popular site on the web by Interactive Age magazine. The also sell a commercial service, InfoSeek Search, that offers access to all the Usenet news groups, daily newswires, business and computer periodicals, and more.
- infotech — Information technology.
- infusion — the act or process of infusing.
- insonify — (transitive) To flood an area or an an object with carefully-controlled sound waves, typically as a part of sonar or ultrasound imaging.
- janiform — Janus-faced.
- kinfolks — Plural form of kinfolk.
- kinsfolk — Alternative spelling of kinfolk.
- knockoff — an act or instance of knocking off.
- kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
- kordofan — a province in the central Sudan. About 147,000 sq. mi. (380,730 sq. km). Capital: El Obeid.
- landform — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- leontief — Wassily [vah-see-lee] /vɑˈsi li/ (Show IPA), 1906–1999, U.S. economist, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1973.
- lifelong — lasting or continuing through all or much of one's life: lifelong regret.