11-letter words containing f, i, g, l
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- 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.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- high relief — sculptured relief in which volumes are strongly projected from the background.
- high-flying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- higher self — a person's spiritual self, as the focus of many meditation techniques, as opposed to the physical body
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
- ill feeling — animosity or resentment felt toward another.
- ill-fitting — (of a garment) not fitting well.
- in full fig — completely dressed or outfitted, esp. in a showy manner
- in light of — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
- inflatingly — in an inflating manner; in a way such as to inflate
- influencing — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- informingly — In an informing manner.
- infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.
- 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.
- kite flying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- 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.
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- 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-giving — imparting, or having the ability to impart, life or vitality; invigorating; vitalizing: life-giving love and praise.
- 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.
- lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lipofilling — the surgical transfer of fat removed by liposuction to areas of the body that need filling out.
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm
- midget golf — miniature golf.
- montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
- non-feeling — the function or the power of perceiving by touch.
- non-fouling — an encrusted deposit, especially on a submerged object, as the hull of a ship.
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- office girl — a girl or young woman employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst