11-letter words containing f, l, a, i, n, g
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formalizing — Present participle of formalize.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fragileness — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- 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.
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
- inflatingly — in an inflating manner; in a way such as to inflate
- infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.
- jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour) The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- racing flag — a distinguishing flag flown by a yacht during the period of its participation in a race.
- refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- signal flag — a flag used for sending messages to other ships