11-letter words containing c, i, g, f
- fluctuating — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- fornicating — to commit fornication.
- forthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- fractioning — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- frigorifico — (in Spanish speaking countries) a meat storage plant attached to a slaughterhouse, esp one where meat is chilled or frozen before being exported
- frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
- fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
- functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- fungistatic — (of a substance or preparation) inhibiting the growth of a fungus.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- fuzzy logic — A superset of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth -- truth values between "completely true" and "completely false". It was introduced by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh of UCB in the 1960's as a means to model the uncertainty of natural language. Any specific theory may be generalised from a discrete (or "crisp") form to a continuous (fuzzy) form, e.g. "fuzzy calculus", "fuzzy differential equations" etc. Fuzzy logic replaces Boolean truth values with degrees of truth which are very similar to probabilities except that they need not sum to one. Instead of an assertion pred(X), meaning that X definitely has the property associated with predicate "pred", we have a truth function truth(pred(X)) which gives the degree of truth that X has that property. We can combine such values using the standard definitions of fuzzy logic: truth(not x) = 1.0 - truth(x) truth(x and y) = minimum (truth(x), truth(y)) truth(x or y) = maximum (truth(x), truth(y)) (There are other possible definitions for "and" and "or", e.g. using sum and product). If truth values are restricted to 0 and 1 then these functions behave just like their Boolean counterparts. This is known as the "extension principle". Just as a Boolean predicate asserts that its argument definitely belongs to some subset of all objects, a fuzzy predicate gives the degree of truth with which its argument belongs to a fuzzy subset. E-mail servers: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- ice fishing — the act or practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
- inferencing — The process of making inferences; inferring.
- influencing — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
- insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
- interfacing — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- jackknifing — Present participle of jackknife.
- lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- magnificant — Misspelling of magnificent.
- magnificent — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
- magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- office girl — a girl or young woman employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
- officiating — Present participle of officiate Serving in an official capacity or serving as an official at a contest.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- racing flag — a distinguishing flag flown by a yacht during the period of its participation in a race.
- racing form — a sheet that provides detailed information about horse races, including background data on the horses, jockeys, etc.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refactoring — (object-oriented, programming) Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
- referencing — an act or instance of referring.
- refinancing — to finance again.
- refringence — refractivity.