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11-letter words containing f, l, y

  • forgetfully — In a forgetful manner.
  • 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.
  • fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
  • fossilology — The study of fossils.
  • fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
  • fractiously — In a fractious manner.
  • frame relay — (communications)   A DTE-DCE interface specification based on LAPD (Q.921), the Integrated Services Digital Network version of LAPB (X.25 data link layer). A common specification was produced by a consortium of StrataCom, Cisco, Digital, and Northern Telecom. Frame Relay is the result of wide area networking requirements for speed; LAN-WAN and LAN-LAN internetworking; "bursty" data communications; multiplicity of protocols and protocol transparency. These requirements can be met with technology such as optical fibre lines, allowing higher speeds and fewer transmission errors; intelligent network end devices (personal computers, workstations, and servers); standardisation and adoption of ISDN protocols. Frame Relay could connect dedicated lines and X.25 to ATM, SMDS, BISDN and other "fast packet" technologies. Frame Relay uses the same basic data link layer framing and Frame Check Sequence so current X.25 hardware still works. It adds addressing (a 10-bit Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI)) and a few control bits but does not include retransmissions, link establishment, windows or error recovery. It has none of X.25's session layer but adds some simple interface management. Any network layer protocol can be used over the data link layer Frames.
  • frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
  • fraternally — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
  • fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • 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.
  • front royal — a town in N Virginia.
  • frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
  • 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]>.
  • fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • funemployed — without a paid job but enjoying the free time: Ask one of your funemployed friends to come along with you.
  • 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.
  • furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
  • 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.
  • granny flat — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
  • half an eye — a modicum of perceptiveness
  • half volley — tennis: returning ball after it bounces
  • half-volley — (in tennis, racquets, etc.) a stroke in which the ball is hit the moment it bounces from the ground.
  • half-yearly — Half-yearly means happening in the middle of a calendar year or a financial year.
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • harvest fly — cicada
  • healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
  • heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
  • 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 father — a title of the pope.
  • 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.
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