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11-letter words containing f, e, n, a, g

  • guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
  • half-length — something that is only half a full length or height, especially a portrait that shows only the upper half of the body, including the hands.
  • hang a left — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • hua guofeng — 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.
  • infangthief — (in Old English law) the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property
  • infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
  • infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
  • infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
  • interfacing — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
  • jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour)   The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
  • ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
  • leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
  • ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
  • life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • magnificent — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
  • manifesting — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
  • rangefinder — 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.
  • refactoring — (object-oriented, programming)   Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
  • refinancing — to finance again.
  • refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
  • rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
  • roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • significate — something signified
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
  • unaffecting — moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.
  • unfaltering — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • unfatigable — susceptible to fatigue.
  • unforgeable — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
  • ungratified — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
  • unmagnified — not magnified
  • vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
  • west-facing — orientated towards the west
  • wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
  • zeng guofan — Tseng Kuo-fan.
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