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11-letter words containing f, i, g, e, a

  • gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
  • gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
  • 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.
  • infangthief — (in Old English law) the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property
  • infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
  • infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
  • infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
  • interfacing — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
  • jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour)   The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
  • ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
  • leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
  • leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
  • ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
  • magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • magnificent — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
  • manifesting — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
  • non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
  • overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
  • 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.
  • refactoring — (object-oriented, programming)   Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
  • refinancing — to finance again.
  • refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
  • refrigerate — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
  • rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
  • significate — something signified
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • suffumigate — to fumigate from below; apply fumes or smoke to.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • take fright — be scared off
  • the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
  • transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
  • unaffecting — moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.
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