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12-letter words containing f, i, g, l

  • facilitating — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
  • failing that — You say failing that to introduce an alternative, in case what you have just said is not possible.
  • fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
  • falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
  • falling door — flap door (def 1).
  • falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
  • false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
  • false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
  • fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
  • fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
  • farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
  • farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
  • farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
  • fast-flowing — water: rapid
  • fast-selling — selling quickly and in large quantities
  • fatigability — susceptible to fatigue.
  • fatigue life — the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.
  • faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
  • federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
  • felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
  • fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
  • fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
  • ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
  • fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
  • field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
  • fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • file footage — film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.
  • file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
  • file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
  • filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
  • filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
  • film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
  • finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
  • fingerflower — purple foxglove.
  • fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
  • firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
  • firing glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century having a conical, rounded body on a thick stem and a heavy spreading foot.
  • fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
  • fishing line — cord used to catch fish
  • fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
  • fissilingual — having a forked tongue
  • fixed-length — referring to a field, record, computer word, or other entity whose length does not vary.
  • flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
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