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