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13-letter words containing f, g

  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • chip graffiti — microchip art
  • chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
  • church of god — any of numerous Protestant denominations that stress personal conversion, sanctification, the imminent return of Jesus Christ, baptism by immersion, and, among some, speaking in tongues.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • city of light — Paris2
  • cliff-hanging — of, relating to, or characteristic of a cliff-hanger: a cliff-hanging vote of 20–19.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
  • cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
  • coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • confectioning — a sweet preparation of fruit or the like, as a preserve or candy.
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • confidingness — The state or quality of being confiding.
  • configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
  • conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
  • conflictingly — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
  • confoundingly — in a confounding manner
  • confusingness — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
  • contrafagotto — a contrabassoon
  • cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
  • couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
  • creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
  • crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
  • cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
  • cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
  • dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
  • deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
  • deep-freezing — the process of freezing food at a very low temperature for storage
  • defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
  • diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
  • digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
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