12-letter words containing f, i, n, g
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- denitrifying — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- differencing — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- discomfiting — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- disinfecting — Present participle of disinfect.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- drop forging — a product made by drop-forging
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effeminating — Present participle of effeminate.
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- electrifying — Present participle of electrify.
- english self — a breed of short-haired guinea pig that is a single colour throughout
- exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
- facial angle — Craniometry. the angle formed by a line from nasion to prosthion at its intersection with the plane of the Frankfurt horizontal.
- facilitating — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- fact-finding — 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.
- failing that — You say failing that to introduce an alternative, in case what you have just said is not possible.
- fainting fit — a faint; a blackout
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- fan magazine — a magazine containing information and gossip about celebrities.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- fanaticizing — Present participle of fanaticize.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money