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12-letter words containing f, a, r, i, g

  • haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
  • hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
  • in charge of — having responsibility for
  • in danger of — liable to
  • infiltrating — Present participle of infiltrate.
  • infographics — Plural form of infographic.
  • infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
  • irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
  • 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.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
  • 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.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • north-facing — facing towards the north
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • 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)
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • 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
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • range finder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
  • rangefinding — the act or process of determining the distance of an object from the observer
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • 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.
  • refrigerated — made frozen or cold, esp for preservative purposes; chilled or frozen
  • refrigerator — a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by means of ice or mechanical refrigeration.
  • relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
  • 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.
  • running gaff — the hoisting gaff.
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • 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-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
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