11-letter words containing g, r, i, f, n
- frequenting — happening or occurring at short intervals: to make frequent trips to Tokyo.
- frighteners — Plural form of frightener.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- fringe area — an area just beyond the outer limits of satisfactory reception, characterized by a weak and possibly unstable signal.
- fringe tree — a shrub or small tree, Chionanthus virginicus, of the olive family, native to the southern U.S., bearing open clusters of white flowers with long, narrow petals.
- fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
- fringilline — Also, fringilline [frin-jil-ahyn, -in] /frɪnˈdʒɪl aɪn, -ɪn/ (Show IPA). belonging or pertaining to the family Fringillidae, comprising the finches and related birds.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furnishings — furnishings. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room. articles or accessories of dress: men's furnishings.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- gentrifiers — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- gentrifying — Present participle of gentrify.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
- inferencing — The process of making inferences; inferring.
- infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
- informingly — In an informing manner.
- infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
- infringe on — to break in on; encroach or trespass on
- infuriating — Archaic. infuriated.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.
- interfacing — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interfering — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
- interfinger — (of sedimentary rocks) to change laterally from one type to another in a zone where the two types form interpenetrating wedges.
- jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour) The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.