11-letter words containing g, a, d, f
- footdragger — One who deliberately delays obligatory action.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- gaff-rigged — (of a sailboat) having one or more gaff sails.
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
- goof around — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
- grand falls — former name of Churchill Falls.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grand forks — a town in E North Dakota.
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- grand theft — stealing large amount
- grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lamb of god — Christ.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- oxford gray — medium to dark gray.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- rangefinder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades