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12-letter words containing a, f, g

  • hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
  • high fashion — haute couture.
  • high finance — large-scale financial transactions or institutions.
  • highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
  • hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
  • ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
  • iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
  • in charge of — having responsibility for
  • in danger of — liable to
  • infiltrating — Present participle of infiltrate.
  • infographics — Plural form of infographic.
  • infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
  • irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
  • jaffa orange — a sweet, almost seedless variety of orange grown principally in Israel.
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • leakage-flux — an act of leaking; leak.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
  • make game of — to make fun of; ridicule; mock
  • match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
  • nonfattening — Not fattening; not causing one to become fat.
  • north-facing — facing towards the north
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
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