7-letter words containing i, l, n
- fleming — Sir Alexander, 1881–1955, Scottish bacteriologist and physician: discoverer of penicillin 1928; Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.
- flexing — to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
- flexion — the act of bending.
- flinder — a piece or fragment
- flinger — a person or thing that flings.
- flinted — a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
- fliping — Present participle of flipe.
- fliting — a dispute or wrangle; scolding.
- florins — Plural form of florin.
- flowing — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- fluking — Present participle of fluke.
- fluming — a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
- flunkie — Alternative form of flunky.
- flutina — an early type of accordion, similar in internal construction to a concertina
- fluting — a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
- fluxing — a flowing or flow.
- fluxion — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.
- flyting — to dispute; wrangle; scold; jeer.
- foaling — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- foiling — Present participle of foil.
- folacin — folic acid.
- fold in — In cooking, if you fold in an ingredient or fold it into the other ingredients, you mix it very gently into the other ingredients.
- folding — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- folknik — a devotee or performer of folk music.
- fooling — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
- fopling — a vain, affected person
- fouling — something that is foul.
- fowling — the practice or sport of shooting or snaring birds.
- frindle — (rare, humorous) A pen.
- fryling — A very small trout.
- fueling — Present participle of fuel.
- fulling — Baptism.
- fulmine — fulminate
- funicle — the stalk of an ovule or seed.
- funkily — In a funky manner.
- funnily — providing fun; causing amusement or laughter; amusing; comical: a funny remark; a funny person.
- furling — to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
- gadling — Roving vagabond; one who roams.
- gainful — profitable; lucrative: gainful employment.
- galenic — of or relating to Galen, his principles, or his methods.
- gallein — a brown or green dye, used to colour textiles and as a pH indicator
- gallian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals containing gallium.
- galline — Of, or pertaining to, the chicken.
- galling — that galls; chafing; irritating; vexing; exasperating.
- galopin — an errand-boy, especially one who works for a cook
- galvani — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1737–98, Italian physiologist whose experiments led to the discovery that electricity can result from chemical action.
- ganglia — Anatomy. a mass of nerve tissue existing outside the central nervous system. any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia.
- gaoling — Present participle of gaol.
- gatling — Richard Jordan, 1818–1903, U.S. inventor.
- gelatin — a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.