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

  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
  • griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
  • guide fossil — index fossil.
  • guilefulness — The quality of being guileful; cunning or deceit.
  • gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
  • gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • half landing — a landing halfway up a flight of stairs
  • half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • half-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • half-turning — split spindle.
  • hard feeling — resentment; ill will
  • haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
  • heffelfinger — William Walter ("Pudge") 1867–1954, U.S. football player.
  • high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
  • high-profile — prominent publicly
  • highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
  • horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
  • iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
  • infiltrating — Present participle of infiltrate.
  • insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
  • irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
  • isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
  • justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
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