10-letter words containing f, i, g
- fastigiate — rising to a pointed top.
- fat-finger — noting or pertaining to errors made by hitting the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, or number pad: fat-finger dialing errors; a large number of typos evidencing the fat-finger syndrome.
- fatigation — (obsolete) Fatigue.
- feathering — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- febrifugal — of or acting as a febrifuge.
- febrifuges — Plural form of febrifuge.
- federating — Present participle of federate.
- fee-paying — charging for service
- feminizing — Tending to make more feminine.
- fergiegate — the scandal resulting from a News of the World sting operation in which Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was videotaped offering access to her former husband, Prince Andrew, for £500,000
- fermenting — Present participle of ferment.
- ferruginol — (organic compound) A diterpene of the abietane chemical class that has been isolated from the needles of the redwood Sequoia sempervirens.
- festooning — Present participle of festoon.
- fetchingly — charming; captivating.
- fetologist — a person who studies or practises fetology
- fever twig — the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens.
- ffestiniog — a town in N Wales, in Gwynedd: tourist attractions include former slate quarries and a narrow-gauge railway at nearby Blaenau Ffestiniog. Pop: 4830 (2001)
- fiberglass — a material consisting of extremely fine filaments of glass that are combined in yarn and woven into fabrics, used in masses as a thermal and acoustical insulator, or embedded in various resins to make boat hulls, fishing rods, and the like.
- fibreglass — Silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width.
- fibrinogen — a globulin occurring in blood and yielding fibrin in blood coagulation.
- fidgetting — Present participle of fidget.
- field goal — Football. a three-point goal made by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball between the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar.
- fight back — retaliate
- fight down — If you fight down an emotion or a desire, you try very hard not to feel it, show it, or act on it.
- figurantes — Plural form of figurante.
- figuration — the act of shaping into a particular figure.
- figurative — 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.
- figure out — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
- figurework — work with figures or numbers
- filchingly — in a filching manner
- filing box — a box in which files can be stored
- fill light — a light used to eliminate or soften shadows caused by the main source of illumination.
- film badge — a badgelike device that, when processed, indicates whether a dose of radiation has been received: worn by workers subject to radiation exposure.
- filmmaking — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filtrating — Present participle of filtrate.
- finalising — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- finalizing — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- financings — Plural form of financing.
- fine grain — granularity
- fine-grain — (of an image) having an inconspicuous or invisible grain.
- finger man — a person who points out someone to be murdered, robbed, etc.
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
- fingerbang — (vulgar) To insert one or more digits into another person's vagina or anus for sexual pleasure.
- fingerbone — A bone in the finger.
- fingerbowl — a small bowl filled with water for rinsing the fingers at the table after a meal
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
- fingerhole — a hole through which a finger can be inserted
- fingerings — Plural form of fingering.
- fingerless — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.