9-letter words containing g, o, f
- ferrogram — a slide prepared to illustrate the suspended iron particles in the lubricant of a machine
- festilogy — a treatise on the subject of church festivals
- fight off — defend yourself from
- fight out — If two people or groups fight something out, they fight or argue until one of them wins.
- figure on — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- filmgoers — Plural form of filmgoer.
- filmgoing — the activity of going to see films
- filmology — (film) A 1950s\u201360s movement of theoretical study relating to film.
- firewagon — (US) A fire engine.
- flag down — a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant.
- flag stop — a bus stop at which a bus only stops if there is someone waiting or if someone wants to get off the bus
- flageolet — a small end-blown flute with four finger holes in front and two in the rear.
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flagpoles — Plural form of flagpole.
- flagstone — Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.
- flamingos — Plural form of flamingo.
- flavoring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- floggable — that ought to be flogged; deserving of flogging
- floggings — Plural form of flogging.
- floodgate — Civil Engineering. a gate designed to regulate the flow of water.
- floodings — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient receives abrupt and intense, rather than gradual, exposure to a fear-producing situation.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- flowerage — the process or state of flowering.
- flowering — bearing flowers.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- foetology — fetology.
- fog fever — an acute respiratory disease of cattle, with a high mortality, that can occur after grazing fog
- fog level — the density produced by the development of photographic materials that have not been exposed to light or other actinic radiation. It forms part of the characteristic curve of a particular material
- fog light — an automobile headlight throwing light of a color intended to diminish the effect of fog, dust, etc., in the air.
- fogginess — The characteristic or quality of being foggy.
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- foie gras — the liver of specially fattened geese or ducks, used as a table delicacy, especially in the form of a paste (pâté de foie gras)
- foiningly — by means of a thrust or push
- folk song — a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and stanzaic, narrative verse.
- folk-sing — an informal gathering for the singing of folk songs.
- folketing — the unicameral parliament of Denmark.
- folkright — a law or right of the people as opposed to that of the privileged classes.
- folksongs — Plural form of folksong.
- following — the act of following.
- fomenting — Present participle of foment.
- fongafale — the capital of Tuvalu, on Funafuti Island, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- fontology — (XEROX PARC) The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g. for window systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology recapitulates file-ogeny. Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole different set of abstractions for fonts parallel to "files" and "folders" - ESR
- foodgrain — Cereal (grain grown as human food).
- footering — Present participle of footer.
- footlight — Usually, footlights. Theater. the lights at the front of a stage that are nearly on a level with the feet of the performers.
- footslogs — Plural form of footslog.
- forboding — Alternative form of foreboding.