13-letter words containing g, r, i, f, o, n
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
- flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
- fons et origo — the source and origin
- foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
- forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
- foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
- foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
- foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
- foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- formularising — Present participle of formularise.
- formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- fractionating — Present participle of fractionate.
- fragmentation — the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
- free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
- fringilliform — resembling a finch
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- 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.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- 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.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
- 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