13-letter words that end in g
- face painting — art of decorating the face with paint
- faith healing — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
- familiarising — Present participle of familiarise.
- familiarizing — Present participle of familiarize.
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
- fee-splitting — the practice of dividing a fee for professional services between two professional persons, as between a referring doctor and a specialist, without the knowledge of the client.
- fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
- fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
- field winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- first sitting — A first sitting is the first period when a meal is served if there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- flat knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted horizontally on needles set in a straight line.
- flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
- floating gang — a group of railroad workers who service or repair the track but are not assigned to a particular section.
- floodlighting — Present participle of floodlight.
- floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
- fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
- fondant icing — icing made from fondant
- food shopping — shopping to buy food
- foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
- foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
- foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- formularising — Present participle of formularise.
- formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- fractionating — Present participle of fractionate.
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- free reaching — sailing on a free reach.
- free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.