12-letter words containing g, e, t, o, f
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- get ahead of — to outdo or excel
- get ahold of — to get in touch with
- get off with — kiss
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- goofy-footer — a surfboard rider or snowboarder who stands with the right foot forward instead of the left foot forward
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- let floating — (programming) A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- night office — the office for matins.
- nonfattening — Not fattening; not causing one to become fat.
- objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
- off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pettifogging — You can describe an action or situation as pettifogging when you think that unnecessary attention is being paid to unimportant, boring details.
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
- profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- refrigerator — a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by means of ice or mechanical refrigeration.
- right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
- roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- strong force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- unforgetting — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl