10-letter words containing g, a, f
- 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.
- guest flag — a rectangular white flag flown at the starboard main spreader or main yardarm of a yacht when the owner is away but guests are on board.
- guineafowl — Alternative spelling of guinea fowl.
- 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 eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., discontinued in 1929, equal to five dollars.
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- half-light — light that is about half its customary brightness, or that is partially dimmed or obscured: the half-light of early dawn; a room in half-light.
- half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- indian fig — a bushy or treelike cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica, of central Mexico, having large yellow flowers and juicy, red, edible fruit.
- 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.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- leafleting — a small flat or folded sheet of printed matter, as an advertisement or notice, usually intended for free distribution.
- left stage — the part of the stage that is left of center as one faces the audience.
- legal fees — fees paid to lawyers
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- lifesaving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- light face — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- light-fast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
- long-faced — having an unhappy or gloomy expression; glum.
- mafficking — to celebrate with extravagant public demonstrations.
- magnifical — magnificent; imposing.
- magnificat — (italics) the hymn of the Virgin Mary in Luke, 1:46–55, beginning “My soul doth magnify the Lord,” used as a canticle at evensong or vespers.
- magnifiers — Plural form of magnifier.
- magnifying — Present participle of magnify.
- man of god — a clergyman.