12-letter words containing f, r, g
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- greenfinches — Plural form of greenfinch.
- 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
- half-turning — split spindle.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- heffelfinger — William Walter ("Pudge") 1867–1954, U.S. football player.
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
- 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
- index finger — forefinger.
- infiltrating — Present participle of infiltrate.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- infringement — a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
- interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
- interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
- irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- 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.
- jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
- 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.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- 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.