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12-letter words containing f, l, a, n, g, e

  • gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • gentle craft — the sport of angling or fishing (usually preceded by the).
  • giant fennel — a plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, having feathery leaves and umbels of small, yellow flowers.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
  • gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
  • 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.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
  • half-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • hard feeling — resentment; ill will
  • hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • 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 savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • reflex angle — an angle greater than 180° and less than 360°.
  • relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-sealing — capable of sealing itself automatically or without the application of adhesive, glue, or moisture: a self-sealing automobile tire; self-sealing envelopes.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • unflattering — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
  • unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • ungracefully — in an ungraceful manner
  • unmeaningful — not meaningful; without significance.
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
  • waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
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