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11-letter words containing g, i, a, f, l

  • flat racing — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
  • flat tuning — the condition of a radio receiver that does not discriminate sharply between signals on different frequencies
  • flatulating — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
  • flauntingly — In a flaunting manner.
  • flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
  • flight path — the trajectory of a moving aircraft or spacecraft relative to a fixed reference.
  • flight plan — an oral or written report to an air traffic control facility describing the route of a projected flight.
  • flint glass — an optical glass of high dispersion and a relatively high index of refraction, composed of alkalis, lead oxide, and silica, with or without other bases, sometimes used as the diverging lens component of an achromatic lens.
  • fluctuating — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
  • flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
  • flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
  • flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
  • footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
  • forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
  • formalising — Present participle of formalise.
  • formalizing — Present participle of formalize.
  • formulating — Present participle of formulate.
  • forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
  • fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
  • fragileness — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
  • fragilities — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
  • freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
  • freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
  • freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
  • fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
  • fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
  • fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
  • full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
  • fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
  • gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
  • gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
  • get a life! — (abuse)   Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
  • girl friday — gal Friday.
  • glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
  • glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
  • go bail for — to furnish bail for
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
  • grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
  • grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
  • granuliform — having a granular structure
  • gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
  • half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
  • half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
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