11-letter words containing l, o, g, i
- filled gold — a composition consisting of gold-plating welded to and rolled with a backing of brass or other base metal, at least 1/20 (0.05) of the total weight being that of the gold.
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- flagitation — the act of flagitating
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flood-light — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
- floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
- 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.
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- flowingness — the quality of being flowing
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- foretelling — Present participle of foretell.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- forgivingly — In a forgiving way.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formalizing — Present participle of formalize.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fortnightly — occurring or appearing once a fortnight.
- fossilizing — Present participle of fossilize.
- fossilology — The study of fossils.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fosterlings — Plural form of fosterling.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- 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]>.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- galeophobia — The fear of sharks.