12-letter words containing g, i, l, f
- flag captain — the captain of a flagship
- flag carrier — an airline that is locally registered in a particular country
- flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
- 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.
- flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
- flageoletist — Someone who plays the flageolet.
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- 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
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- fleetingness — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
- flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
- flight level — a specified height at which an aircraft is allowed to fly
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- flimflamming — Present participle of flimflam.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- flop forging — forging of both sides of a piece from the same die, the sides being identical.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- flowing well — A flowing well is a well which can produce oil or gas without the use of a mechanical pump.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
- fly-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- flying field — a small landing field with short runways and facilities for servicing airplanes on a lesser scale than an airport.
- flying jenny — Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a merry-go-round, especially a relatively small or unadorned one.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.
- flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
- folding door — a door with hinged sections that can be folded flat against one another when opened.
- folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- folk singing — the singing of folk songs, especially by a group of people.
- footslogging — Present participle of footslog.