9-letter words containing f, u, g
- fish glue — a type of glue made by prolonged boiling of the connective tissue of fish
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- fissuring — Present participle of fissure.
- fitchburg — a city in N Massachusetts.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flagellum — A slender threadlike structure, especially a microscopic whiplike appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc., to swim.
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flame gun — a type of flame-thrower for destroying garden weeds
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flaughter — a fluttering
- flaunting — Present participle of flaunt.
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- flugelman — fugleman.
- flurrying — a light, brief shower of snow.
- flux gate — Physics. an instrument for indicating the field strength of an external magnetic field, as that of the earth: used in some gyrocompasses and magnetometers.
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- forejudge — forjudge.
- forgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- fortuning — Present participle of fortune.
- foundling — an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian.
- fraughted — Simple past tense and past participle of fraught.
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frogmouth — any Australian and Oriental bird of the family Podargidae, related to the goatsuckers, having a broad, flattened, froglike mouth.
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- frugivore — any chiefly fruit-eating organism, as certain bats.
- fruit gum — a type of chewy sweet with a fruit flavour
- fucking a — an emphatic exclamation of approval
- fugacious — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fugginess — the state or condition of being fuggy
- fugitives — Plural form of fugitive.
- fuguelike — Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- fulgently — In a fulgent manner; so as to dazzle or glitter.
- fulgorous — brilliant; dazzling
- fulgurant — flashing like lightning.
- fulgurate — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulgurite — a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning.
- fulgurous — characteristic of or resembling lightning: the fulgurous cracking of a whip.
- full-page — A full-page advertisement, picture, or article in a newspaper or magazine uses a whole page.
- fullering — a half-round hammer used for grooving and spreading iron.
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- fumigants — Plural form of fumigant.
- fumigated — Simple past tense and past participle of fumigate.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.