13-letter words containing f, g, l
- free-wheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- fringilliform — resembling a finch
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- fully fledged — Fully fledged means complete or fully developed.
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
- gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
- gallows frame — headframe.
- game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
- general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glue sniffing — the inhaling of the fumes of certain kinds of glue for the hallucinogenic or euphoric effect.
- glue-sniffing — the inhaling of the fumes of certain kinds of glue for the hallucinogenic or euphoric effect.
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
- golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
- golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
- gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory) (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
- gulf of kutch — an inlet of the Arabian Sea in India. Length: about 159 kilometres (99 miles)
- gulf of lions — a wide bay of the Mediterranean off the S coast of France, between the Spanish border and Toulon
- gulf of papua — an inlet of the Coral Sea in the SE coast of New Guinea