9-letter words containing a, s, g
- fastening — something that fastens, as a lock or clasp.
- fastigial — Relating to a fastigium.
- fastigium — the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.
- ferriages — Plural form of ferriage.
- fiberglas — finespun filaments of glass made into yarn that is woven into textiles, used in woolly masses as insulation, and pressed and molded as plastic material
- figurants — Plural form of figurant.
- filagrees — Plural form of filagree.
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- flabagast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flag seat — a seat woven from reeds, rushes, or iris leaves.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flag stop — a bus stop at which a bus only stops if there is someone waiting or if someone wants to get off the bus
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flagpoles — Plural form of flagpole.
- flagships — Plural form of flagship.
- flagstaff — flagpole.
- flagstick — pin (def 13).
- flagstone — Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.
- flamingos — Plural form of flamingo.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flatlings — with the flat side, as of a sword
- foie gras — the liver of specially fattened geese or ducks, used as a table delicacy, especially in the form of a paste (pâté de foie gras)
- forestage — the part of a stage in front of the proscenium or the closed curtain, as the apron or an extension of the apron.
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- fosterage — the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
- fragments — Plural form of fragment.
- franglais — French spoken or written with a large admixture of English words, especially those of American origin.
- frogspawn — The eggs of a frog, which are surrounded by transparent jelly.
- frontages — Plural form of frontage.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- fugacious — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fumigants — Plural form of fumigant.
- fungistat — a fungistatic substance or preparation.
- fuselages — Plural form of fuselage.
- fustigate — to cudgel; beat; punish severely.
- g & s — Gilbert and Sullivan
- gabbiness — The quality of being gabby.
- gaberones — former name of Gaborone.
- gadabouts — Plural form of gadabout.
- gaelicise — adapt to conform to Gaelic spelling and pronunciation
- gaelicism — a word, phrase or idiom peculiar to the Gaelic language
- gaff sail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gainsayer — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- gaitskell — Hugh Todd Naylor [ney-ler] /ˈneɪ lər/ (Show IPA), 1906–63, English economist and statesman: Labour party leader 1955–63.
- galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
- galatians — a book in the New Testament, written to the Christians in Galatia. Abbreviation: Gal.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.