12-letter words containing f, r, g
- 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.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- 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.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- 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.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
- parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- 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.
- prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
- price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- prizefighter — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- 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.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- range finder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rangefinding — the act or process of determining the distance of an object from the observer
- recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.