12-letter words containing g, o, r, i
- fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
- fishing worm — an earthworm.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- fitting room — a room, as in a clothing store, where garments are tried on and measurements taken for alterations or other changes.
- flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
- flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
- flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- flop forging — forging of both sides of a piece from the same die, the sides being identical.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- folding door — a door with hinged sections that can be folded flat against one another when opened.
- folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- for a giggle — as a joke or prank; not seriously
- foraging ant — any of several ants, as army ants, that forage as part of a large group.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- forecarriage — the front part of a carriage
- foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
- foreign-flag — (of a vessel or aircraft) having a registry under a nationality other than one's own: rivalry between U.S.-flag freighters and foreign-flag ships.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- foretokening — Indication in advance.
- foretriangle — the triangular area formed by the deck, foremast, and headstay of a sailing vessel
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- form-fitting — Form-fitting clothes fit very closely to the body of the person who is wearing them. Form-fitting is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- forthrightly — In a forthright manner.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- four-engined — (of an aircraft) having four engines
- four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
- frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
- free coinage — the unrestricted coinage of bullion or of a specified metal, as silver, into money for any person bringing it to the mint, either with or without charge for minting.
- freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
- freezing fog — fog in which the temperature of the water droplets is so low that they freeze on contact with surfaces
- freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- frighten off — scare away
- fringe group — a group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority