12-letter words containing i, g, n
- failing that — You say failing that to introduce an alternative, in case what you have just said is not possible.
- fainting fit — a faint; a blackout
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- fan magazine — a magazine containing information and gossip about celebrities.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- fanaticizing — Present participle of fanaticize.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fast-selling — selling quickly and in large quantities
- fastigiation — The quality of being fastigiate.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
- feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fencing wire — a heavy-gauge galvanized wire used for farm fences
- ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
- fermi energy — the level in the distribution of electron energies in a solid at which a quantum state is equally likely to be occupied or empty
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
- fighting fit — If you describe someone as fighting fit, you are emphasizing that they are very fit or healthy.
- fighting top — one of the gun platforms on the lower masts of sailing men-of-war, used in attacking the crew of an enemy ship with swivel guns and muskets
- file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
- filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
- film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
- fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
- finger grass — any of various grasses of the genus Chloris, having several narrow spikes in a terminal cluster.
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
- finger tight — made as tight as possible by hand
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fingerflower — purple foxglove.