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12-letter words containing f, i, n, g

  • insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • intensifying — Present participle of intensify.
  • interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
  • match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
  • misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • misinforming — Present participle of misinform.
  • mollifyingly — So as to mollify.
  • mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
  • mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
  • mystifyingly — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • night office — the office for matins.
  • non-fungible — (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.
  • nondeforming — not causing deformity
  • nonfattening — Not fattening; not causing one to become fat.
  • nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
  • north-facing — facing towards the north
  • objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
  • offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
  • offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
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