11-letter words containing f, i, g
- flag-waving — an ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism.
- flagitation — the act of flagitating
- flannelling — a soft, slightly napped fabric of wool or wool and another fiber, used for trousers, jackets, shirts, etc.
- flashlights — Plural form of flashlight.
- flat racing — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- flat tuning — the condition of a radio receiver that does not discriminate sharply between signals on different frequencies
- flatulating — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
- flauntingly — In a flaunting manner.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- flight line — an area for the servicing and maintenance of airplanes that includes parking ramps and hangars.
- flight path — the trajectory of a moving aircraft or spacecraft relative to a fixed reference.
- flight plan — an oral or written report to an air traffic control facility describing the route of a projected flight.
- flight suit — a long-sleeved jumpsuit made of fire-resistant material, worn typically by members of an aircraft crew.
- flight test — to test (an airplane or the like) in flight.
- flight-test — to test (an airplane or the like) in flight.
- flightiness — The quality of being flighty.
- flinchingly — With a flinching motion.
- flint glass — an optical glass of high dispersion and a relatively high index of refraction, composed of alkalis, lead oxide, and silica, with or without other bases, sometimes used as the diverging lens component of an achromatic lens.
- flood-light — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
- floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- flowingness — the quality of being flowing
- fluctuating — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- flush right — even or level, as with a surface; forming the same plane: The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
- fly-fishing — Angling. a method of fishing in which fly casting is used.
- fly-tipping — the deliberate dumping of rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- flying fish — any fish of the family Exocoetidae, having stiff and greatly enlarged pectoral fins enabling it to glide considerable distances through the air after leaping from the water.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
- flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
- flying wing — an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- foam piping — Foam piping is a system of tubes which delivers a mass of very small bubbles to the base of tanks for protection from fire.
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff