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14-letter words containing f, h, g

  • finishing nail — a slender nail with a small globular head, used for finish work, being driven to slightly beneath the surface and covered with putty or the like.
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
  • flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
  • flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
  • flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • free of charge — having no cost
  • free-machining — (of certain metals) readily machinable at high speeds with low force.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • freight engine — a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
  • game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-evergreen — having leaves which may or may not remain green throughout the year
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
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