11-letter words containing f, a, n, i, g
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- foam piping — Foam piping is a system of tubes which delivers a mass of very small bubbles to the base of tanks for protection from fire.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formalizing — Present participle of formalize.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- fornicating — to commit fornication.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- fountaining — Present participle of fountain.
- fractioning — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fragileness — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- fragmenting — a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.
- fragmentise — Alternative form of fragmentize.
- fragmentize — to break (something) into fragments; break (something) apart.
- franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frangipanis — Plural form of frangipani.
- frangipanni — Archaic form of frangipani.
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- fringe area — an area just beyond the outer limits of satisfactory reception, characterized by a weak and possibly unstable signal.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fungistatic — (of a substance or preparation) inhibiting the growth of a fungus.
- fustigating — Present participle of fustigate.
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
- gas fitting — the work or business of a gas fitter.
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granuliform — having a granular structure