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13-letter words containing o, f, g

  • profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
  • profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
  • profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
  • profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
  • put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • retrofittings — acts of retrofitting
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-ignition — the spontaneous combustion or ignition of something without any external spark or flame
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • show signs of — indicate possibility of
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • song of songs — a book of the Bible. Abbreviation: Sol.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • stock footage — film containing stock shots.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
  • tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
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