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14-letter words containing f, a, n, i, g

  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
  • mongolian fold — epicanthus.
  • morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
  • nonsignificant — (sciences) Lacking statistical significance.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
  • outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • profit warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
  • profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • sanguification — hematopoiesis.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-annealing — denoting certain metals, such as lead, tin, and zinc, that recrystallize at air temperatures and so may be cold-worked without strain-hardening
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-financing — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • shifting sands — If you refer to the shifting sands of a situation, you mean that it changes so often that it is difficult to deal with.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
  • springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
  • staff training — training to improve the performance or knowledge of the employees or workforce or a company, etc
  • staffing ratio — the ratio of the staff or workforce of a place to another group, for example to staff in another department, the ratio of patients to nurses in a hospital, or the ratio of pupils to teachers in a school
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
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