11-letter words containing f, g, l
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- full-length — of standard or customary length: a full-length movie.
- full-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
- fullfledged — Alternative spelling of full-fledged.
- fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- fungibility — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- 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]>.
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- genuflected — Simple past tense and past participle of genuflect.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- 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.
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- 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.
- gleefulness — The state of being gleeful or joyous.
- glens falls — a city in E New York, on the Hudson River.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- gluten-free — (of food, a diet, etc) not containing gluten
- 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.
- gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
- gold-filled — composed of a layer of gold backed with a base metal.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- golden orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- good fellow — a friendly and pleasant person.
- goose flesh — goose bumps.
- grand falls — former name of Churchill Falls.