11-letter words containing f, o, g, a
- ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
- fertigation — (agriculture) the application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
- flagitation — the act of flagitating
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- float glass — extremely smooth, nearly distortion-free plate glass manufactured by pouring molten glass onto a surface of molten tin.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- foam piping — Foam piping is a system of tubes which delivers a mass of very small bubbles to the base of tanks for protection from fire.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- 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.
- footdragger — One who deliberately delays obligatory action.
- forage acre — a measure of the vegetation available for grazing on a range or pasture, equal to the total area multiplied by the percentage of surface covered by usable vegetation (Ex.: 10 acres × 30% coverage = 3 forage acres)
- forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formalizing — Present participle of formalize.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- fornicating — to commit fornication.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- fort orange — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- fountaining — Present participle of fountain.
- four-bagger — home run.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- fractioning — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- front range — a mountain range extending from central Colorado to S Wyoming: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Grays Peak, 14,274 feet (4350 meters).
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for