11-letter words containing f, l, y, i
- flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
- flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
- flying wing — an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- foolhardily — In a foolhardy manner.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forgivingly — In a forgiving way.
- formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
- fortnightly — occurring or appearing once a fortnight.
- fossilology — The study of fossils.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frivolously — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
- fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
- ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- 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.
- 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]>.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- high-flying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- 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.
- host family — family one lodges with
- housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- if you like — You say if you like when you are making or agreeing to an offer or suggestion in a casual way.
- 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.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- infantility — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- inferiourly — Obsolete form of inferiorly.
- infertilely — In an infertile manner.
- infertility — not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.
- inflammably — In an inflammable manner.
- inflatingly — in an inflating manner; in a way such as to inflate
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- informingly — In an informing manner.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.