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11-letter words containing g, a, f

  • glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
  • glens falls — a city in E New York, on the Hudson River.
  • go bail for — to furnish bail for
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • 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.
  • gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
  • 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.
  • graniferous — bearing grain
  • granitiform — resembling granite
  • granny farm — a home where old people are cared for
  • granny flat — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
  • granuliform — having a granular structure
  • grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
  • grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
  • gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
  • gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
  • great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
  • green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
  • guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
  • gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
  • half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
  • half-gallon — a half of a gallon, equal to 2 quarts (1.9 liters).
  • half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
  • half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
  • half-length — something that is only half a full length or height, especially a portrait that shows only the upper half of the body, including the hands.
  • handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
  • handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
  • hang a left — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
  • heterograft — xenograft.
  • 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.
  • high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
  • hua guofeng — 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.
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