11-letter words containing g, r, i, f
- firing line — Military. the positions at which troops are stationed to fire upon the enemy or targets. the troops firing from this line.
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- first light — dawn.
- first night — opening night.
- first thing — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- fish finger — Fish fingers are small long pieces of fish covered in breadcrumbs. They are usually sold in frozen form.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
- five-finger — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- fivefingers — a name for various plants, cinquefoil etc.; a starfish
- flat racing — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- flush right — even or level, as with a surface; forming the same plane: The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- for nothing — freely, free
- forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foredooming — Present participle of foredoom.
- forefingers — the first finger next to the thumb.
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- foreignisms — Plural form of foreignism.
- foreignness — of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native: foreign cars.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- forerunning — Present participle of forerun.
- foreshowing — Present participle of foreshow.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- foresignify — to signify in advance
- foretelling — Present participle of foretell.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- forgiveness — act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.