11-letter words containing a, l, f
- get a life! — (abuse) Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
- glens falls — a city in E New York, on the Hudson River.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grand falls — former name of Churchill Falls.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- granny flat — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
- green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- half an ear — If you listen to something or someone with only half an ear, you do not give your full attention to what is being said.
- half an eye — a modicum of perceptiveness
- half asleep — in or into a state of sleep: He fell asleep quickly.
- half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half volley — tennis: returning ball after it bounces
- half-asleep — in or into a state of sleep: He fell asleep quickly.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
- half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
- half-decade — a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
- half-dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-frozen — extremely cold