12-letter words containing f, i, l, a, g, r
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- for a giggle — as a joke or prank; not seriously
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- foreign-flag — (of a vessel or aircraft) having a registry under a nationality other than one's own: rivalry between U.S.-flag freighters and foreign-flag ships.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- foretriangle — the triangular area formed by the deck, foremast, and headstay of a sailing vessel
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
- four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- garand rifle — M-1.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- goliath frog — the largest living frog, Rana goliath, which occurs in the Congo region of Africa and can grow to a length of 30 centimetres
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
- 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.
- gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
- 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.
- hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
- infiltrating — Present participle of infiltrate.
- interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
- irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- 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
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid