11-letter words containing f, g, d
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- growth fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in growth stocks.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- 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.
- horned frog — any of various frogs having a marked protuberance on the head, cheek, or upper eyelid.
- humidifying — Present participle of humidify.
- identifying — Present participle of identify.
- infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
- knife-edged — having a thin, sharp edge.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lamb of god — Christ.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- log of wood — log1 (def 10).
- midget golf — miniature golf.
- 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.
- off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
- overfeeding — the act of feeding too much
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- oxford gray — medium to dark gray.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- pot of gold — the realization of all one's hopes and dreams; ultimate success, fulfillment, or happiness: to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
- 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.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- right field — the area of the outfield to the right of center field, as viewed from home plate.
- rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- sdeignfully — disdainfully
- self-guided — accompanied by a guide: a guided tour.
- self-regard — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
- sending-off — If there is a sending-off during a game of football, a player is told to leave the field by the referee, as a punishment for seriously breaking the rules.
- sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
- sliding fit — a fit that enables one part to be inserted into another by sliding or pushing, rather than by hammering