12-letter words containing g, i, t
- 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.
- feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
- 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
- fifty-eighth — next after the fifty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 58.
- fight it out — a battle or combat.
- fight shy of — bashful; retiring.
- fighting fit — If you describe someone as fighting fit, you are emphasizing that they are very fit or healthy.
- fighting top — one of the gun platforms on the lower masts of sailing men-of-war, used in attacking the crew of an enemy ship with swivel guns and muskets
- 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 eight — figure eight.
- 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.
- filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
- 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 tight — made as tight as possible by hand
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fingerprints — Plural form of fingerprint.
- fire setting — an ancient method of shattering rock by building a fire against it so as to cause it to split as a result of uneven internal stresses.
- firefighters — Plural form of firefighter.
- firefighting — a person who fights destructive fires.
- firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.