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12-letter words containing f, o, g, l

  • gaff-topsail — Also called fore-and-aft topsail. a jib-headed fore-and-aft sail set above a gaff.
  • galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
  • galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
  • gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
  • get ahold of — to get in touch with
  • gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
  • gloss finish — a reflective or shiny surface, usually on a photograph but also sometimes on metal, paper, paint, etc
  • gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
  • gold filling — a small amount of gold that a dentist puts in a hole in a tooth to prevent further decay
  • goliath frog — the largest living frog, Rana goliath, which occurs in the Congo region of Africa and can grow to a length of 30 centimetres
  • gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
  • ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
  • ground floor — the floor of a building at or nearest to ground level.
  • guide fossil — index fossil.
  • gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
  • gulf of oman — a strait that ultimately links the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
  • gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
  • gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • gulf of suez — the NW arm of the Red Sea: linked with the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
  • hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
  • high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
  • high-profile — prominent publicly
  • hog's fennel — any of several Eurasian umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Peucedanum, esp P. officinale, having clusters of small whitish flowers
  • hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
  • horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
  • isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
  • 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 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.
  • lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
  • light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
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