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12-letter words containing f, o, i, e, g, r

  • frighten off — scare away
  • fringe group — a group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority
  • frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
  • gift voucher — gift certificate.
  • gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • 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.
  • high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
  • high-profile — prominent publicly
  • in charge of — having responsibility for
  • in danger of — liable to
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
  • nondeforming — not causing deformity
  • nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
  • off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • refrigerator — a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by means of ice or mechanical refrigeration.
  • right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
  • ring of fire — the linear zone of seismic and volcanic activity that coincides in general with the margins of the Pacific Plate.
  • roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • unforeboding — a prediction; portent.
  • unforeseeing — not foreseeing
  • unforgetting — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • unperforming — not performing
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
  • wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
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