11-letter words containing f, r, u, g
- frequenting — happening or occurring at short intervals: to make frequent trips to Tokyo.
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- from hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
- fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
- frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- fruit sugar — fructose.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- full-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furnishings — furnishings. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room. articles or accessories of dress: men's furnishings.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- gluten-free — (of food, a diet, etc) not containing gluten
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- goof around — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- green stuff — paper money.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- grow out of — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- growth fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in growth stocks.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gummiferous — producing gum
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- infuriating — Archaic. infuriated.
- kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.