11-letter words containing i, f
- get a life! — (abuse) Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- go off with — sb
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
- gold-filled — composed of a layer of gold backed with a base metal.
- golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
- goosefishes — Plural form of goosefish.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- gummiferous — producing gum
- gunfighting — Combat with guns.
- gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.