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

  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • griffin-hood — (in India and the East) a newcomer, especially a white person from a Western country.
  • 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.
  • gross profit — gross receipts less the cost of goods or production but before the deduction of such other costs as rent or salaries.
  • ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
  • ground floor — the floor of a building at or nearest to ground level.
  • ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
  • ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
  • ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
  • group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
  • gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
  • hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
  • high-profile — prominent publicly
  • 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.
  • hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
  • in charge of — having responsibility for
  • in danger of — liable to
  • in good form — fit, healthy
  • infographics — Plural form of infographic.
  • infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
  • jaffa orange — a sweet, almost seedless variety of orange grown principally in Israel.
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
  • misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
  • misinforming — Present participle of misinform.
  • mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
  • mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
  • nondeforming — not causing deformity
  • nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
  • north-facing — facing towards the north
  • 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
  • offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • 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.
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