11-letter words containing g, u, r
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- expurgating — Present participle of expurgate.
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
- exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- farraginous — heterogeneous; mixed: a farraginous collection of random ideas.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- ferruginous — Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- finno-ugric — the major branch of the Uralic family of languages, subdivided into Finnic, which includes Finnish and Estonian, and Ugric, which includes Hungarian.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- 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.
- flowthrough — Flow (through a system or process).
- fluegelhorn — a brass instrument like the cornet in design and pitch but with a wider bore, larger bell, and mellower tone
- 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.
- focus group — a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- foregrounds — Plural form of foreground.
- forerunning — Present participle of forerun.
- forethought — thoughtful provision beforehand; provident care; prudence.
- forgetfully — In a forgetful manner.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- four-bagger — home run.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- four-legged — having four legs.
- freerunning — Alternative spelling of free running.
- freethought — Alternative spelling of free thought.
- freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
- frequenting — happening or occurring at short intervals: to make frequent trips to Tokyo.
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- from hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
- fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
- frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- fruit sugar — fructose.
- 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.
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.