11-letter words containing l, o, n, r
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fosterlings — Plural form of fosterling.
- fractionlet — a small piece
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- french roll — a circular or oval bread roll having a hard or crispy crust.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front royal — a town in N Virginia.
- front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- gender role — the public image of being a particular gender that a person presents to others: conventional notions of female gender roles.
- genouillere — jointed armour for protecting the knees
- gerontology — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- gjallarhorn — Heimdall's horn, used to warn the gods of Ragnarok.
- glamorizing — Present participle of glamorize.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- gold orange — an orange-yellow, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 N 3 NaO 3 S, used chiefly as an acid-base indicator.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- golden ager — an elderly person, especially one who has retired.
- golden girl — successful or celebrated woman
- golden gram — (in the East Indies) the chickpea used as a food for people and cattle.
- golden horn — an inlet of the Bosporus, in European Turkey: forms the inner part of Istanbul.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- golden orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
- golden rose — a gold, bejeweled ornament in the form of a rose or spray of roses, blessed and presented by the pope in recognition of service to the Holy See.
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
- golden-ager — an elderly person, especially one who has retired.