8-letter words containing g, a, f, n
- 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.
- 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.
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flanning — Architecture. the splay of a sconcheon.
- flapping — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
- flashgun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashing — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- flatling — in a flat position; with the flat side, as of a sword.
- flatlong — With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
- flatting — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- flexagon — a three-dimensional figure having polygonal faces that is constructed from a folded sheet of paper in such a way that different faces are exposed when the figure is flexed along its folds.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- fog bank — a stratum of fog as seen from a distance.
- fontange — Often, fontanges. commode (def 4).
- 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.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- 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.
- fragging — to kill, wound, or assault (especially an unpopular or overzealous superior) with a fragmentation grenade.
- fragment — fragmentation
- fragrant — having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- framings — Plural form of framing.
- franking — The action of franking a letter or parcel.
- frapping — to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- freegans — Plural form of freegan.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- fugleman — (formerly) a soldier placed in front of a military company as a good model during training drills.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- 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".
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- golfiana — golfing collectibles
- 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.
- grafting — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- in a fog — dazed
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.