11-letter words containing f, i, l, n, g
- formalizing — Present participle of formalize.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fortnightly — occurring or appearing once a fortnight.
- fossilizing — Present participle of fossilize.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fosterlings — Plural form of fosterling.
- fragileness — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- free-living — following a way of life in which one freely indulges the appetites, desires, etc.
- freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
- fringilline — Also, fringilline [frin-jil-ahyn, -in] /frɪnˈdʒɪl aɪn, -ɪn/ (Show IPA). belonging or pertaining to the family Fringillidae, comprising the finches and related birds.
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- fungibility — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
- golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high-flying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- ill feeling — animosity or resentment felt toward another.
- ill-fitting — (of a garment) not fitting well.