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11-letter words containing i, g, l

  • freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
  • frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
  • fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
  • fringilline — Also, fringilline [frin-jil-ahyn, -in] /frɪnˈdʒɪl aɪn, -ɪn/ (Show IPA). belonging or pertaining to the family Fringillidae, comprising the finches and related birds.
  • fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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]>.
  • gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
  • gainesville — a city in N Florida.
  • gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
  • galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
  • galantamine — (organic compound) An alkaloid, obtained synthetically or from various plants, used for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and various memory impairments.
  • galavanting — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
  • galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
  • gallantries — dashing courage; heroic bravery; noble-minded behavior.
  • galli-curci — Amelita [ah-me-lee-tah] /ˌɑ mɛˈli tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Italian soprano in the U.S.
  • galliardise — the state of being gay or merry
  • gallic acid — a white or yellowish, crystalline, sparingly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 6 O 5 , obtained from nutgalls, used chiefly in tanning and in ink dyes.
  • gallicanism — the movement or body of doctrines, chiefly associated with the Gallican church, advocating the restriction of papal authority in certain matters.
  • gallicizing — Present participle of gallicize.
  • gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
  • gallinacean — a gallinaceous bird.
  • gallinipper — any of various insects that sting or bite, especially a large American mosquito, Psorophora ciliata.
  • gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
  • gallivanter — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
  • gallovidian — a native or inhabitant of Galloway
  • galvanising — Present participle of galvanise.
  • galvanizing — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • gametically — in a gametic manner
  • gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
  • gangliocyte — (biology) A ganglion cell.
  • ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
  • garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
  • garlic salt — salt flavoured with ground garlic
  • gas lighter — device: produces flame
  • gas mileage — the ratio of the number of miles travelled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned; fuel efficiency
  • gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
  • gaslighting — Present participle of gaslight.
  • gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
  • gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
  • gatling gun — an early type of machine gun consisting of a revolving cluster of barrels around a central axis, each barrel being automatically loaded and fired every revolution of the cluster.
  • gazillionth — (informal) The ordinal form of the number 'gazillion'.
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