11-letter words containing f, u, g, i
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- flush right — even or level, as with a surface; forming the same plane: The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
- flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
- forerunning — Present participle of forerun.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- fountaining — Present participle of fountain.
- fox hunting — a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
- fox-hunting — a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
- freerunning — Alternative spelling of free running.
- freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
- frequenting — happening or occurring at short intervals: to make frequent trips to Tokyo.
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
- frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- fruit sugar — fructose.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- full-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
- fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
- functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- 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]>.
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- graniferous — bearing grain