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13-letter words containing g, o, l, f, i, n

  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
  • fringilliform — resembling a finch
  • front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • grain of salt — salt crystal
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gulf of lions — a wide bay of the Mediterranean off the S coast of France, between the Spanish border and Toulon
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
  • kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • living fossil — an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time, as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab.
  • loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
  • long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
  • longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
  • national flag — emblem of a country
  • non-frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
  • nonmeaningful — Not meaningful.
  • nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
  • oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-ignition — the spontaneous combustion or ignition of something without any external spark or flame
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
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