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

  • fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • floating roof — A floating roof is an internal roof of a fuel storage tank.
  • floor manager — a person assigned to direct the proceedings on the floor of an assembly, as at a political convention.
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
  • floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
  • floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
  • flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
  • flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
  • flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
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