13-letter words containing f, l, i, n, g
- self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
- self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- selling floor — floor (def 10).
- significantly — important; of consequence.
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- tiffany glass — Favrile Glass.
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
- unconflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
- unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- unflinchingly — not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.
- uniflagellate — having only one flagellum.
- vcc filtering — (electronics) A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- weightlifting — the act, art, or sport of lifting barbells of given poundages in a prescribed manner, as a competitive event or conditioning exercise.
- when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
- working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.