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11-letter words containing f, l, e, g

  • 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-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.
  • 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.
  • gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
  • 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-length — something that is only half a full length or height, especially a portrait that shows only the upper half of the body, including the hands.
  • hang a left — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • high relief — sculptured relief in which volumes are strongly projected from the background.
  • higher self — a person's spiritual self, as the focus of many meditation techniques, as opposed to the physical body
  • highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
  • ill feeling — animosity or resentment felt toward another.
  • infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
  • 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.
  • infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
  • jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour)   The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
  • jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • kite flying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
  • ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
  • leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
  • leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
  • leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
  • leapfrogger — One who leapfrogs.
  • left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
  • ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • life-giving — imparting, or having the ability to impart, life or vitality; invigorating; vitalizing: life-giving love and praise.
  • life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
  • light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
  • magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
  • magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • midget golf — miniature golf.
  • montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • non-feeling — the function or the power of perceiving by touch.
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