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13-letter words containing g, r, i, f

  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • seafaring man — a sailor
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
  • the far right — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic conservatism or reaction, based generally on a belief that things are better left unchanged
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
  • to go off air — to stop broadcasting
  • toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
  • trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
  • trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • trout fishing — angling to catch trout
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • vcc filtering — (electronics)   A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
  • virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
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