11-letter words containing f, i, l, c
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- fratricidal — a person who kills his or her brother.
- free clinic — centre offering free medical treatment
- freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- full circle — to the original place, source, or state through a cycle of developments (usually used in the phrase come full circle).
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- 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.
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- holy office — a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held dangerous to faith and morals.
- honorifical — honorific
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- ill effects — If something has ill effects, it causes problems or damage.
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- imperfectly — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
- in full cry — When someone is in full cry, they are expressing their views very strongly or are very active.
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- inflectable — (linguistics) That can be inflected.
- inflections — Plural form of inflection.
- inflictions — Plural form of infliction.
- influencers — Plural form of influencer.
- 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.
- infomercial — a long commercial that informs or instructs, especially in an original and entertaining manner: an infomercial on making Christmas decorations using the sponsor's brand of glue.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- interfacial — included between two faces.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- latticeleaf — laceleaf.
- leaf insect — any of several orthopterous insects of the family Phillidae, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having a body that resembles a leaf in color and form.
- lecythiform — (biology, mycology) shaped like a bowling pin, a flask, or a bottle.
- licence fee — an annual fee paid by television users in the UK
- life jacket — a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable construction, for supporting the wearer in deep water and preventing drowning.
- 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
- loan office — an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
- locofocoism — the doctrines of the Locofocos.