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12-letter words containing g, f, l

  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
  • microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
  • mollifyingly — So as to mollify.
  • mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
  • mystifyingly — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • neglectfully — In a neglectful manner.
  • newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
  • non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
  • nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
  • offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reflex angle — an angle greater than 180° and less than 360°.
  • refreshingly — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
  • relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
  • rigging loft — a loft or gallery in a boatbuilder's yard from which rigging can be fitted
  • 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
  • roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
  • safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-denying — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
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