11-letter words containing l, g, u
- flat tuning — the condition of a radio receiver that does not discriminate sharply between signals on different frequencies
- flatulating — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
- flauntingly — In a flaunting manner.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flight suit — a long-sleeved jumpsuit made of fire-resistant material, worn typically by members of an aircraft crew.
- flooded gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- flowthrough — Flow (through a system or process).
- fluctuating — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluegelhorn — a brass instrument like the cornet in design and pitch but with a wider bore, larger bell, and mellower tone
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- flush right — even or level, as with a surface; forming the same plane: The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
- flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
- forgetfully — In a forgetful manner.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- four-legged — having four legs.
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- 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-length — of standard or customary length: a full-length movie.
- full-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
- fullfledged — Alternative spelling of full-fledged.
- 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.
- 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]>.
- gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- galli-curci — Amelita [ah-me-lee-tah] /ˌɑ mɛˈli tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Italian soprano in the U.S.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gallup poll — a representative sampling of public opinion or public awareness concerning a certain subject or issue.
- gang plough — a plough having two or more shares, coulters, and mouldboards designed to work simultaneously
- garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
- gas guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gas-guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- 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.
- gelasius ii — (Giovanni de Gaeta) died 1119, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1118–19.
- gemmulation — the process of reproduction by gemmules.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.