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

  • nanofortnight — (jargon)   (Adelaide University) 10^-9 fortnights or about 1.2 milliseconds. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See microfortnight, attoparsec, and micro-.
  • never-failing — that does not fail ever; unfailing
  • niagara falls — the falls of the Niagara River: in Canada, the Horseshoe Falls, 158 feet (48 meters) high; 2600 feet (792 meters) wide; in the U.S., American Falls, 167 feet (51 meters) high; 1000 feet (305 meters) wide.
  • non-frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
  • 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.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
  • profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
  • profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
  • profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
  • radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • 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.
  • seafaring man — a sailor
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
  • 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.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • the far right — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic conservatism or reaction, based generally on a belief that things are better left unchanged
  • tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
  • to go off air — to stop broadcasting
  • toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
  • 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
  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
  • trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
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