12-letter words containing g, i, a, t
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- facilitating — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- fact-finding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- failing that — You say failing that to introduce an alternative, in case what you have just said is not possible.
- fainting fit — a faint; a blackout
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- fanaticizing — Present participle of fanaticize.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fast-selling — selling quickly and in large quantities
- fastigiation — The quality of being fastigiate.
- father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
- fatigability — susceptible to fatigue.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- fatigue life — the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
- fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- file footage — film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.
- film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
- finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flag captain — the captain of a flagship
- flag station — a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.
- flagellating — Present participle of flagellate.
- flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
- flageoletist — Someone who plays the flageolet.
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- flat-hunting — the activity of looking for a flat in which to live