12-letter words containing g, i, f
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- cockfighting — The sport (illegal in certain countries) of setting two cocks to fight each other. Fighting cocks often have had their legs fitted with metal spurs.
- comfortingly — In a comforting manner.
- conferencing — communication between three or more speakers at different locations
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configurator — an item of software that enables or assists in the configuration of a product
- confiscating — Present participle of confiscate.
- conformingly — In a way that conforms.
- cooking film — a plastic film used for wrapping or covering food
- cooking foil — a thin sheet of aluminium used for wrapping or covering food
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cut a figure — to attract attention
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- denitrifying — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- differencing — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- discomfiting — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgustfully — in a disgustful manner
- disinfecting — Present participle of disinfect.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- drop forging — a product made by drop-forging
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effeminating — Present participle of effeminate.
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- electrifying — Present participle of electrify.