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11-letter words containing f, u, g

  • 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.
  • gummiferous — producing gum
  • gunfighting — Combat with guns.
  • gunn effect — the onset of microwave oscillations in a thin slice of a semiconductor when a voltage exceeding a given value is applied across the slice.
  • gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
  • guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
  • gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
  • handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
  • hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
  • high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hua guofeng — 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.
  • humidifying — Present participle of humidify.
  • in full fig — completely dressed or outfitted, esp. in a showy manner
  • infatuating — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
  • 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.
  • infuriating — Archaic. infuriated.
  • insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
  • 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.
  • kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
  • non-fouling — an encrusted deposit, especially on a submerged object, as the hull of a ship.
  • obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
  • off-putting — provoking uneasiness, dislike, annoyance, or repugnance; disturbing or disagreeable.
  • offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
  • out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
  • outfighting — a battle or combat.
  • outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
  • overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
  • pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
  • quantifying — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • refuctoring — (humour, programming)   Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
  • rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
  • right stuff — the necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities, as courage, confidence, dependability, toughness, or daring (usually preceded by the).
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
  • running fix — a fix made from a moving vessel or aircraft from observations made at different times, the course and distance run between the observations being considered.
  • sdeignfully — disdainfully
  • self-guided — accompanied by a guide: a guided tour.
  • self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
  • self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
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