11-letter words containing f, r, g
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
- ego surfing — the act of searching for your own name on the internet
- engraftment — The act of engrafting or something engrafted.
- fabricating — Present participle of fabricate.
- factorizing — Present participle of factorize.
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- fairy green — a medium yellow-green color.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- farraginous — heterogeneous; mixed: a farraginous collection of random ideas.
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- feed grains — grains used to feed livestock
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- ferrimagnet — (physics) Any ferrimagnetic material.
- ferrography — the analysis of iron in lubricants in order to assess the extent of wear in a machine
- ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
- ferruginous — Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
- fertigation — (agriculture) the application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
- fertilising — Present participle of fertilise.
- fertilizing — Present participle of fertilize.
- field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- fighter jet — a jet fighter, or fighter plane propelled by a jet engine
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- filagreeing — Present participle of filagree.
- filigreeing — Present participle of filigree.
- film rating — a rating imposed by the British Board of Film Censors that indicates the minimum age of people allowed to view the film
- film rights — the rights purchased from the author of a work that enable a film maker to make a film of it
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- fimbriating — Present participle of fimbriate.
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- finger gate — any of a number of small runners radiating from a single gate to distribute metal in several parts of the mold cavity.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.