12-letter words containing g, i, f
- english self — a breed of short-haired guinea pig that is a single colour throughout
- exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
- facial angle — Craniometry. the angle formed by a line from nasion to prosthion at its intersection with the plane of the Frankfurt horizontal.
- 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
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- fan magazine — a magazine containing information and gossip about celebrities.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- fanaticizing — Present participle of fanaticize.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- 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.
- federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
- feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fencing wire — a heavy-gauge galvanized wire used for farm fences
- ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
- fermi energy — the level in the distribution of electron energies in a solid at which a quantum state is equally likely to be occupied or empty
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.