11-letter words containing g, l, u, c, i
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- duplicating — Present participle of duplicate.
- ejaculating — Present participle of ejaculate.
- elucidating — Present participle of elucidate.
- euchologion — a collection of prayers
- eugenically — In a eugenic manner.
- exculpating — Present participle of exculpate.
- fluctuating — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- 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]>.
- galli-curci — Amelita [ah-me-lee-tah] /ˌɑ mɛˈli tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Italian soprano in the U.S.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- immunologic — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- inculcating — Present participle of inculcate.
- inculpating — Present participle of inculpate.
- indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
- 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.
- inoculating — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- league city — a town in S Texas.
- lechuguilla — a semidesert plant, Agave lecheguilla, of Mexico, having a basal rosette of sharply pointed leaves and a very tall flower spike, grown as an ornamental.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- light music — music for popular entertainment
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
- logical sum — union (def 10a).
- longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
- lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- multiagency — involving multiple agencies
- nonsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- outclassing — Present participle of outclass.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public good — benefit of all people
- pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.