11-letter words containing g, f, o
- detoxifying — Present participle of detoxify.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog fouling — the offence of being in charge of a dog and failing to remove the faeces after it defecates in a public place
- dog officer — dogcatcher.
- dogfighting — a violent fight between dogs.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
- dumfounding — Present participle of dumfound.
- ego surfing — the act of searching for your own name on the internet
- exfoliating — Present participle of exfoliate.
- facing tool — a lathe tool for smoothing a plane surface at right angles to the axis of rotation.
- factorizing — Present participle of factorize.
- faggot vote — (formerly) a vote created by the allotting of property to a person to give him the status of an elector
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- falling-off — If there is a falling-off of an activity, there is a decrease in its amount or intensity.
- falling-out — a quarrel or estrangement between persons formerly in close association with one another.
- fancy goods — small decorative gifts; knick-knacks
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- farraginous — heterogeneous; mixed: a farraginous collection of random ideas.
- fast-moving — moving or capable of moving at high speed.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- ferrography — the analysis of iron in lubricants in order to assess the extent of wear in a machine
- ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
- ferruginous — Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
- fertigation — (agriculture) the application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- fight-o-net — (messaging) A distortion of FidoNet, often applied after a flurry of flamage in a particular echo, especially the SYSOP echo or Fidonews.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- filled gold — a composition consisting of gold-plating welded to and rolled with a backing of brass or other base metal, at least 1/20 (0.05) of the total weight being that of the gold.
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- finno-ugric — the major branch of the Uralic family of languages, subdivided into Finnic, which includes Finnish and Estonian, and Ugric, which includes Hungarian.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
- flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
- flagitation — the act of flagitating