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12-letter words containing l, a, f, r, g

  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
  • ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
  • gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
  • half-turning — split spindle.
  • hard feeling — resentment; ill will
  • haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
  • hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
  • infiltrating — Present participle of infiltrate.
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
  • irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reflex angle — an angle greater than 180° and less than 360°.
  • relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
  • roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • target rifle — a rifle designed especially for shooting at targets.
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
  • unflattering — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
  • unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
  • ungracefully — in an ungraceful manner
  • valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
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