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13-letter words containing a, f, i, g

  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • gap financing — a mortgage or property loan given as an interim loan to finance the difference between the floor loan and the maximum permanent loan
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
  • giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
  • gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
  • ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
  • grain of salt — salt crystal
  • grain refiner — any chemical added to a molten metal or alloy to check grain growth.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
  • hydrofracking — 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.
  • iguassu falls — a waterfall on the Iguassú River, on the boundary between Brazil and Argentina. 210 feet (64 meters) high.
  • image formats — (graphics, file format)   There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
  • in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
  • indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
  • infantilizing — Present participle of infantilize.
  • inframarginal — below the margin; submarginal.
  • infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
  • infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
  • insignificant — unimportant, trifling, or petty: Omit the insignificant details.
  • interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
  • irrefrangible — not to be broken or violated; inviolable: an irrefrangible rule of etiquette.
  • landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
  • landing field — an area of land large and smooth enough for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • leaf gelatine — gelatine in the form of thin sheets
  • leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
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