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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.
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