8-letter words containing g, i, a, f
- 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.
- 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.
- flaglike — Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
- flagship — a ship carrying the flag officer or the commander of a fleet, squadron, or the like, and displaying the officer's flag.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliages — Plural form of foliage.
- 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.
- 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.
- frigates — Plural form of frigate.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- fumigate — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- 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".
- gadflies — Plural form of gadfly.
- gaff rig — a sailboat rig having one or more fore-and-aft gaff sails.
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gaffsail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- gap-fill — In language teaching, a gap-fill test is an exercise in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- gas fire — A gas fire is a fire that produces heat by burning gas.
- gas lift — Gas lift is a method in which gas is injected into the production tubing (= tubes through which hydrocarbons flow to the surface) to allow liquids to enter the wellbore at a higher flow rate.