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13-letter words containing f, e, i, n, t, g

  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • footing piece — one of a series of horizontal transverse timbers supporting a platform or staging.
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
  • fragmentation — the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
  • free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • freight train — a train of freight cars.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • geoscientific — relating to geoscience
  • gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
  • heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
  • hottentot fig — a succulent plant, Mesembryanthemum edule, of southern Africa, having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp: family Aizoaceae
  • hunting knife — a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • in the offing — the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground.
  • indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
  • infringements — Plural form of infringement.
  • interferingly — So as to interfere.
  • interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
  • kite fighting — (in Malaysia) a game in which one player attempts to cut the string of his opponent's kite with the string of his own
  • leaf gelatine — gelatine in the form of thin sheets
  • leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
  • loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
  • 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.
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