11-letter words containing f, i, g
- confounding — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- confronting — Present participle of confront.
- confusingly — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- cooling fan — (in an automotive vehicle) a device that keeps an engine cool
- copyfitting — the determining of the area to be occupied by given copy when set in type.
- cult figure — a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dead firing — firing of a furnace or boiler at less than normal operating temperature in order to maintain conditions desirable during a period of idleness.
- deafeningly — to make deaf: The accident deafened him for life.
- debriefings — Plural form of debriefing.
- defalcating — Present participle of defalcate.
- defatigable — (very, rare) Easily tired or wearied; capable of being fatigued.
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- defoliating — Present participle of defoliate.
- deforesting — Present participle of deforest.
- delightfull — Archaic form of delightful.
- denazifying — Present participle of denazify.
- detoxifying — Present participle of detoxify.
- dignifiable — Capable of being dignified.
- dignifiedly — In a dignified manner.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfiguring — Present participle of disfigure.
- disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- disunifying — Present participle of disunify.
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog fouling — the offence of being in charge of a dog and failing to remove the faeces after it defecates in a public place
- dog officer — dogcatcher.
- dogfighting — a violent fight between dogs.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
- dumfounding — Present participle of dumfound.
- east-facing — facing towards the east
- ego surfing — the act of searching for your own name on the internet
- emulsifying — Present participle of emulsify.
- exfoliating — Present participle of exfoliate.
- fabricating — Present participle of fabricate.
- face-saving — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- facelifting — Present participle of facelift.
- facing tool — a lathe tool for smoothing a plane surface at right angles to the axis of rotation.
- factfinding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factorizing — Present participle of factorize.
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- fairy green — a medium yellow-green color.