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13-letter words containing r, e, f, i, g

  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
  • prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • 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.
  • refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • retrofittings — acts of retrofitting
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • 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.
  • river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • 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.
  • seafaring man — a sailor
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
  • the far right — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic conservatism or reaction, based generally on a belief that things are better left unchanged
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • vcc filtering — (electronics)   A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
  • virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
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