11-letter words containing f, i, g
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- 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.
- fungistatic — (of a substance or preparation) inhibiting the growth of a fungus.
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furnishings — furnishings. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room. articles or accessories of dress: men's furnishings.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- fustigating — Present participle of fustigate.
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- 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]>.
- gaff-rigged — (of a sailboat) having one or more gaff sails.
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
- gas fitting — the work or business of a gas fitter.
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- gentrifiers — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- gentrifying — Present participle of gentrify.
- 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 wind of — hear rumours of
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- 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.
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- 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.
- go off with — sb
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- 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 fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
- goosefishes — Plural form of goosefish.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.