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13-letter words containing g, e, n, r

  • extravagantes — decretals circulating outside some recognized collection of canon law. Those of John XXII and the so-called Extravagantes communes form part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
  • extravagantly — With lavish expenditure or behaviour.
  • extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
  • extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
  • fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
  • farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
  • finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
  • fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • firing hammer — the part of the firing mechanism of a firearm that ignites the charge by striking the primer
  • firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floor manager — a person assigned to direct the proceedings on the floor of an assembly, as at a political convention.
  • floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
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