8-letter words containing f, u, g
- focusing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fogbound — unable to sail or navigate because of heavy fog.
- fogfruit — a wildflower of the Verbena family
- foreguts — Plural form of foregut.
- forjudge — to exclude, expel, dispossess, or deprive by a judgment.
- fougasse — a type of bread made with olive oil
- founding — simple past tense and past participle of find.
- fraughts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught.
- frautage — cargo
- freiburg — a city in SW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- fribourg — a canton in W Switzerland. 644 sq. mi. (1668 sq. km).
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- frugging — a dance deriving from the twist.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fruiting — any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- fuddling — Present participle of fuddle.
- fudgicle — An ice-cream (on a stick) flavoured with fudge.
- fuelling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fughetta — a short fugue
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- fugleman — (formerly) a soldier placed in front of a military company as a good model during training drills.
- fuglemen — Plural form of fugleman.
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- fumigate — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- fumingly — In a rage.
- fundings — Plural form of funding.
- fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- fungoids — Plural form of fungoid.
- funguses — (nonstandard, rare) Plural form of fungus.
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- ghastful — frightful.
- glassful — an amount contained by or sufficient to fill a glass or tumbler.
- gleefull — Archaic form of gleeful.
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- grateful — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- greatful — Misspelling of grateful.
- griefful — (archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- gruffily — in a gruffy manner
- gruffish — Somewhat gruff.