12-letter words containing g, i, a, f, l, o
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- goliath frog — the largest living frog, Rana goliath, which occurs in the Congo region of Africa and can grow to a length of 30 centimetres
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- 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.
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- 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
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
- 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.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- 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.
- soft landing — space vehicle
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.