8-letter words containing g, a, f
- fanlight — a window over a door or another window, especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse.
- far gone — departed; left.
- far-gone — remote.
- farmgirl — A girl or young woman who works on a farm.
- farragos — Plural form of farrago.
- farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
- farsight — The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
- farthing — a former bronze coin of Great Britain, equal to one-fourth of a British penny: withdrawn in 1961.
- fasching — a carnival celebration that precedes Lent in German-speaking countries and communities; Shrovetide.
- fatigued — of or relating to fatigues or any clothing made to resemble them: The guerrilla band wore fatigue pants and field jackets. She brought fatigue shorts to wear on the hike.
- fatigues — weariness from bodily or mental exertion.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- faulting — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- favoring — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- feasting — Present participle of feast.
- feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- feedbags — Plural form of feedbag.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- fenagled — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- ferriage — conveyance or transportation by a ferryboat.
- fig leaf — the leaf of a fig tree.
- fig wasp — a chalcid wasp, Blastophaga psenes, introduced into the U.S. from Europe, that pollinates figs, usually of the Smyrna variety.
- figeater — green June beetle.
- figurant — a ballet dancer who does not perform solo.
- figurate — Forming a figure.
- filagree — filigree.
- 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.
- firefang — combustion taking place in compost due to the heat produced by decomposition
- fixating — Present participle of fixate.
- flacking — press agent.
- flag day — June 14, the anniversary of the day (June 14, 1777) when Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag of the United States.
- flag out — to register (a commercial vehicle) in a country other than the one in which it operates, usually in order to take advantage of favourable rates of taxation
- flagella — a plural of flagellum.
- flagfish — Also called American flagfish. a killifish, Jordanella floridae, inhabiting swamps and streams of Florida, having a blue-brown back and whitish sides with red stripes, often kept in aquariums.
- flagging — becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling.
- flagless — Without a flag.
- flaglike — Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
- flagpole — a staff or pole on which a flag is or can be displayed.
- flagrant — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flagship — a ship carrying the flag officer or the commander of a fleet, squadron, or the like, and displaying the officer's flag.
- flagstad — Kirsten Marie [kur-stuh n muh-ree;; Norwegian khish-tuh n mah-ree-uh,, khir-stuh n] /ˈkɜr stən məˈri;; Norwegian ˈxɪʃ tən mɑˈri ə,, ˈxɪr stən/ (Show IPA), 1895–1962, Norwegian operatic soprano.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.