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12-letter words containing g, u, t, f

  • fuliginosity — The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
  • fungus stone — the Canadian tuckahoe, Polyporus tuberaster, an irregularly spherical mass of fungus mycelium and earth, forming a pseudosclerotium.
  • futurologist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a follower of futurism, especially an artist or writer.
  • genuflecting — Present participle of genuflect.
  • genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
  • get stuffed! — an exclamation of contemptuous anger or annoyance, esp against another person
  • giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
  • gift voucher — gift certificate.
  • gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
  • ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
  • ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
  • group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
  • gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
  • half-turning — split spindle.
  • highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
  • insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • k'ung fu-tse — Chinese name of Confucius.
  • k'ung fu-tzu — Chinese name of Confucius.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • neglectfully — In a neglectful manner.
  • offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
  • out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
  • out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
  • outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
  • recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
  • stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
  • stuffing nut — a large nut that is tightened to compress the packing in a stuffing box
  • stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • tempus fugit — time flies
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
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