11-letter words containing l, y, g
- flinchingly — With a flinching motion.
- fly gallery — a narrow platform at the side of a stage from which ropes are manipulated to raise or lower scenery, battens, etc.
- fly-fishing — Angling. a method of fishing in which fly casting is used.
- fly-tipping — the deliberate dumping of rubbish in an unauthorized place
- 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 fish — any fish of the family Exocoetidae, having stiff and greatly enlarged pectoral fins enabling it to glide considerable distances through the air after leaping from the water.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
- flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
- flying wing — an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
- 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
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- forgetfully — In a forgetful manner.
- forgivingly — In a forgiving way.
- fortnightly — occurring or appearing once a fortnight.
- fossilology — The study of fossils.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]>.
- gallerygoer — a person who visits art galleries, especially often or regularly.
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gamble away — lose through gambling
- gametically — in a gametic manner
- gangliocyte — (biology) A ganglion cell.
- garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
- generically — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genesiology — (obsolete) The study of generation (reproduction).
- genetically — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- genotypical — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- gentlemanly — like, befitting, or characteristic of a gentleman.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
- germylidene — (chemistry) the germanium analogues of carbenes, R2Ge':'.
- gerontology — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
- gibberingly — While gibbering; with wild, incoherent speech.
- gigantology — the study or description of giants
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- gimlet-eyed — having penetrating and piercing eyes, and seeming to notice everything
- ginger lily — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hedychium, of the ginger family, native to Asia, especially the white ginger, H. coronarium, having white, fragrant flowers.
- girl friday — gal Friday.