21-letter words containing g, i, n, f
- synchronized shifting — gear shifting in which the gears to be meshed are made to rotate at the same speed.
- take one's finger out — stop delaying or procrastinating
- the acting profession — actors considered as a group
- the origin of species — (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) a treatise (1859) by Charles Darwin setting forth his theory of evolution.
- the shipping forecast — a radio broadcast made by the BBC of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles
- thin end of the wedge — anything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger
- tide-generating force — the difference between the force of gravity exerted by the moon or the sun on a particle of water in the ocean and that exerted on an equal mass of matter at the centre of the earth. The lunar tide-generating forces are about 2.2 times greater than are the solar ones
- to cross your fingers — If you cross your fingers, you put one finger on top of another and hope for good luck. If you say that someone is keeping their fingers crossed, you mean they are hoping for good luck.
- to have green fingers — If someone has green fingers, they are very good at gardening and their plants grow well.
- to my way of thinking — You add to my way of thinking to a statement in order to indicate that you are giving your opinion.
- virginia (rail) fence — a zigzag fence made of rails laid across one another at the ends
- whip-and-tongue graft — a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and inserting a tongue in the scion into a slit in the stock.