11-letter words containing g, u, l, f
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- 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.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- 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.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- genuflected — Simple past tense and past participle of genuflect.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- gleefulness — The state of being gleeful or joyous.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- gluten-free — (of food, a diet, etc) not containing gluten
- 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.
- gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
- 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.
- gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
- 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.
- in full fig — completely dressed or outfitted, esp. in a showy manner
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- non-fouling — an encrusted deposit, especially on a submerged object, as the hull of a ship.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- 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.
- 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.
- shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- stultifying — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- tug-of-love — Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
- unfaltering — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- unfatigable — susceptible to fatigue.
- unfeignedly — in a genuine manner
- unfittingly — in an unfitting manner
- unflinching — not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.
- unforgeable — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.