11-letter words containing f, u, l, o
- four-legged — having four legs.
- fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- free labour — the labour of workers who are not members of trade unions
- frivolously — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- full nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes each arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the arms at the fingers or wrists on the back of the opponent's neck.
- full-bodied — of full strength, flavor, richness, etc.: full-bodied wine; full-bodied writing.
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- fulsomeness — The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- funemployed — without a paid job but enjoying the free time: Ask one of your funemployed friends to come along with you.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- fushionless — lacking strength or spirit
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- 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]>.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- 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.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- 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.
- hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
- hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
- 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.
- ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.
- inferiourly — Obsolete form of inferiorly.
- infield out — a put-out recorded by a member of the infield.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- interfluous — interfluent
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- 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.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- leflunomide — An inhibitor of pyrimidine synthesis, used to treat some forms of arthritis.
- lethiferous — lethal.
- loop fusion — loop combination