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12-letter words containing ir

  • first fruits — The first fruits of a project or activity are the earliest results or profits.
  • first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • first of all — to start with
  • first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
  • first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
  • first strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
  • first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
  • first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
  • first-grader — a child in the first grade
  • first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first-string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
  • first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
  • firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
  • fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
  • fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
  • fox squirrel — any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.
  • franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
  • frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
  • frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
  • galahad, sir — Sir Arthurian Romance. the noblest and purest knight of the Round Table, son of Lancelot and Elaine: gained the Holy Grail.
  • gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
  • gimme birdie — a birdie in which the final putt is a gimme
  • glamour girl — a girl or woman whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
  • gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
  • gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
  • grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
  • great circle — a circle on a spherical surface such that the plane containing the circle passes through the center of the sphere. Compare small circle.
  • great spirit — the chief deity in the religion of many North American Indian tribes.
  • grid circuit — that part of a circuit that contains the cathode and the grid of a vacuum tube.
  • grozing iron — (in plumbing) a hot iron for finishing soldered joints.
  • guadalquivir — a river in S Spain, flowing W to the Gulf of Cádiz. 374 miles (602 km) long.
  • hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
  • hair removal — depilatory treatment
  • hair remover — depilatory cream
  • hair stylist — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
  • hair-raising — terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
  • hair-trigger — easily activated or set off; reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause: a hair-trigger temper.
  • haircoloring — dye or tint for the hair.
  • hairdressers — Plural form of hairdresser.
  • hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
  • hairlessness — The condition or quality of being hairless.
  • hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hairstylists — Plural form of hairstylist.
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