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12-letter words containing g, o, l, f, i

  • life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
  • light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
  • mollifyingly — So as to mollify.
  • mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
  • non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
  • nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
  • offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • rigging loft — a loft or gallery in a boatbuilder's yard from which rigging can be fitted
  • roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
  • roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • spongillafly — spongefly.
  • topping lift — a line for raising and supporting a spar, as a yard or boom.
  • unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
  • wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
  • wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
  • yogic flying — a phenomenon of Transcendental Meditation in which the meditator jumps into the air while in the lotus position
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