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

  • jaffa orange — a sweet, almost seedless variety of orange grown principally in Israel.
  • 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.
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • 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
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • 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.
  • pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
  • 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
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • 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.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • 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
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • strong force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
  • 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)
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • tongue graft — whip graft.
  • 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
  • valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
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