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12-letter words containing a, f, g

  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • range finder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
  • rangefinding — the act or process of determining the distance of an object from the observer
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reflex angle — an angle greater than 180° and less than 360°.
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • refrigerated — made frozen or cold, esp for preservative purposes; chilled or frozen
  • refrigerator — a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by means of ice or mechanical refrigeration.
  • refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
  • relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
  • right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
  • roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
  • running gaff — the hoisting gaff.
  • safe passage — journey completed without danger
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-sealing — capable of sealing itself automatically or without the application of adhesive, glue, or moisture: a self-sealing automobile tire; self-sealing envelopes.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
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