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13-letter words containing a, u, f, 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.
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • 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.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • 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 gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • gulf of papua — an inlet of the Coral Sea in the SE coast of New Guinea
  • gulf of saros — an inlet of the Aegean in NW Turkey, north of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Length: 59 km (37 miles). Width: 35 km (22 miles)
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • gulf-of-saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
  • 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-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • iguassu falls — a waterfall on the Iguassú River, on the boundary between Brazil and Argentina. 210 feet (64 meters) high.
  • infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
  • john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
  • legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
  • lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
  • lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
  • long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
  • lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
  • managed funds — funds which are managed by a mutual fund manager on behalf of investors
  • manganiferous — containing manganese.
  • manufacturing — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
  • metal fatigue — a weakening and breaking of metal due to it bending and flexing
  • mixing faucet — a single outlet for water from separately controlled hot-water and cold-water taps.
  • nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • nonmeaningful — Not meaningful.
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
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