11-letter words containing l, o, g, u
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- four-legged — having four legs.
- 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]>.
- 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 vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gemmulation — the process of reproduction by gemmules.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- genouillere — jointed armour for protecting the knees
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
- glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- 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.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
- glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
- glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
- 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.
- gouty stool — a footstool of the 18th century having a top adjustable to a variety of angles.
- grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
- granulation — the act or process of granulating.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.