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12-letter words containing f, u, a, g

  • flat-hunting — the activity of looking for a flat in which to live
  • flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
  • fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
  • fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
  • fluorography — photofluorography.
  • flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
  • flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
  • foul-tasting — having a very unpleasant taste
  • four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
  • fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
  • fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
  • fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
  • fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
  • fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
  • galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
  • gang of four — a group of four radical members of the Chinese Communist Party who were leaders of the Cultural Revolution and who were purged and imprisoned after the death of Mao Zedong: Jiang Qing (widow of Mao), Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Zhang Chunqiao.
  • giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
  • gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
  • gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
  • ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
  • gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
  • gulf of oman — a strait that ultimately links the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
  • gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
  • gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
  • half-turning — split spindle.
  • 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.
  • highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
  • ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
  • iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • leakage-flux — an act of leaking; leak.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
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