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10-letter words containing g, a, f, r

  • gram flour — flour prepared from the gram seeds
  • grape fern — any of several ferns of the genus Botrychium, comprising several species having grapelike clusters of sporangia.
  • grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
  • grassfinch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
  • gratefully — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • gratifying — tending to gratify; giving or causing satisfaction; pleasing.
  • gray friar — a Franciscan friar: so called from the traditional color of the habit worn by the order.
  • great rift — a group of large dark clouds in the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Sagittarius.
  • green flag — (in automobile racing) a green-colored flag that is used to signal the start of a race.
  • grey friar — a Franciscan friar
  • griffonage — (rare) Careless handwriting; A crude or illegible scrawl.
  • guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
  • guy friday — a man who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
  • gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
  • hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
  • half tiger — a five-rand coin
  • half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
  • half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • homografts — Plural form of homograft.
  • infragrant — not fragrant; bad-smelling
  • ingrafting — Present participle of ingraft.
  • ingrateful — Ungrateful; not grateful.
  • intergraft — (of two plants or parts of a plant) to unite by grafting
  • kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
  • klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.
  • klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
  • ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
  • lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
  • langlaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
  • lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
  • loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
  • magnifiers — Plural form of magnifier.
  • marouflage — a method of attaching a canvas to a wall through adhesion, accomplished by coating the surface with white lead mixed with oil.
  • organ loft — a loft in a church or cathedral that houses the keyboard of a pipe organ
  • page proof — a trial proof printed from type that has been made up in page form, usually after galley corrections have been made, but before plates are made. Compare proof (def 12).
  • persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
  • pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
  • prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
  • profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
  • refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
  • refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • ring false — to give the impression of being false
  • ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
  • roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
  • root graft — Horticulture. the process of grafting a shoot or stem of one plant onto a section of root of another.
  • sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
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