12-letter words containing a, f, r, o, g
- 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.
- 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.
- leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
- 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
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
- 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)
- 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.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- 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
- 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.
- refrigerator — a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by means of ice or mechanical refrigeration.
- 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.
- 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.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- top grafting — grafting in the top, as of a tree, in order to replace existing branches with those of a more desired variety or form.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.