12-letter words containing l, e, g, i, n
- ethnological — Of or pertaining to ethnology.
- ethnologists — Plural form of ethnologist.
- eurosterling — sterling as part of a European holding
- evangelicals — Plural form of evangelical.
- evangelistic — Seeking to convert others to the Christian faith; missionary.
- evangelizing — Present participle of evangelize.
- evening meal — dinner or supper
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- exhilarating — Making one feel very happy, animated, or elated; thrilling.
- facial angle — Craniometry. the angle formed by a line from nasion to prosthion at its intersection with the plane of the Frankfurt horizontal.
- 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.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fast-selling — selling quickly and in large quantities
- federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
- 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
- ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
- field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
- 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
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fingerflower — purple foxglove.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
- fishing line — cord used to catch fish
- fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
- fixed-length — referring to a field, record, computer word, or other entity whose length does not vary.
- flagellating — Present participle of flagellate.
- flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- fleetingness — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
- flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flowing well — A flowing well is a well which can produce oil or gas without the use of a mechanical pump.
- flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
- flying field — a small landing field with short runways and facilities for servicing airplanes on a lesser scale than an airport.
- flying jenny — Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a merry-go-round, especially a relatively small or unadorned one.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.