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13-letter words containing f, r, g

  • profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • retrofittings — acts of retrofitting
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
  • ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • seafaring man — a sailor
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
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