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

  • feeler gauge — a person or thing that feels.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
  • fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
  • fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
  • file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
  • finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
  • fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
  • firing glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century having a conical, rounded body on a thick stem and a heavy spreading foot.
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flag carrier — an airline that is locally registered in a particular country
  • flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
  • flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
  • flagellatory — relating to flagellation
  • flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
  • flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
  • flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
  • flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
  • flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
  • floor-manage — to act as or in the manner of a floor manager.
  • flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
  • fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
  • fluorography — photofluorography.
  • flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
  • flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
  • food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
  • for a giggle — as a joke or prank; not seriously
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • foreign-flag — (of a vessel or aircraft) having a registry under a nationality other than one's own: rivalry between U.S.-flag freighters and foreign-flag ships.
  • forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
  • foretriangle — the triangular area formed by the deck, foremast, and headstay of a sailing vessel
  • forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
  • formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
  • four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
  • fragmentally — fragmentary.
  • frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
  • frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
  • gaillard cut — an artificial cutting in the Panama Canal Zone, NW of the city of Panama: excavated for the Panama Canal. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • galactometer — a lactometer.
  • galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
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