8-letter words containing n, a, f
- 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.
- finalise — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- finalism — the doctrine or belief that all events are determined by their purposes or goals.
- finalist — a person entitled to participate in the final or decisive contest in a series, as in musical or athletic competition.
- finality — the state, quality, or fact of being final; conclusiveness or decisiveness.
- finalize — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- financer — (finance) An entity that provides financing.
- finances — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- findable — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fine art — a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture.
- fineable — subject to a fine; punishable by a fine.
- finedraw — (transitive) To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
- finestra — an aperture, especially a ventilator in the wall of a tomb.
- finnmark — the markka of Finland.
- fire ant — any of several omnivorous ants, as the migrant Solenopsis geminata originating in tropical and subtropical South America, having a sting that produces a burning sensation.
- fireband — A band or bond forged by fire.
- firefang — combustion taking place in compost due to the heat produced by decomposition
- fishtank — a glass-sided tank for keeping, displaying, or observing live fish or other aquatic animals.
- fistiana — the sport or world of boxing: one of fistiana's most colorful characters.
- fittonia — either of two plants, Fittonia gigantea or F. verschaffeltii, of the acanthus family, native to South America, having conspicuously veined leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- fixating — Present participle of fixate.
- fixation — the act of fixing or the state of being fixed.
- flacking — press agent.
- flagging — becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling.
- flagrant — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- 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.
- flame on — (messaging, jargon) To begin or continue to flame. The punning reference to Marvel Comics's Human Torch is no longer widely recognised. The phrase "flame on" may actually precede the flame, in which case "flame off" will follow it. See rave, burble.
- flamenco — a style of dancing, characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies, that is strongly rhythmic and involves vigorous actions, as clapping the hands and stamping the feet.
- 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.
- flancard — a piece of armour covering a horse's flank
- flanders — a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the adjacent parts of N France and SW Netherlands.
- flanerie — idleness; dawdling.
- flaneurs — Plural form of flaneur.
- 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.
- flankers — Plural form of flanker.
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flannels — Plural form of flannel.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)
- flanning — Architecture. the splay of a sconcheon.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flapping — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
- flash on — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- flashgun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.