11-letter words containing o, f, g
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- float glass — extremely smooth, nearly distortion-free plate glass manufactured by pouring molten glass onto a surface of molten tin.
- flood-light — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
- flooded gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil
- floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- flowingness — the quality of being flowing
- flowthrough — Flow (through a system or process).
- fluegelhorn — a brass instrument like the cornet in design and pitch but with a wider bore, larger bell, and mellower tone
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- foam piping — Foam piping is a system of tubes which delivers a mass of very small bubbles to the base of tanks for protection from fire.
- focus group — a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- fool's gold — iron or copper pyrites, sometimes mistaken for gold.
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- footdragger — One who deliberately delays obligatory action.
- footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
- footslogger — Common term for a foot soldier. A person who footslogs.
- for nothing — freely, free
- forage acre — a measure of the vegetation available for grazing on a range or pasture, equal to the total area multiplied by the percentage of surface covered by usable vegetation (Ex.: 10 acres × 30% coverage = 3 forage acres)
- forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foredooming — Present participle of foredoom.
- forefingers — the first finger next to the thumb.
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- foregrounds — Plural form of foreground.