11-letter words containing o, f, g
- freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
- freight-ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- frigorifico — (in Spanish speaking countries) a meat storage plant attached to a slaughterhouse, esp one where meat is chilled or frozen before being exported
- frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
- froghoppers — Plural form of froghopper.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- frogs' legs — (esp in France) the legs of a frog prepared to be eaten, often by frying in butter and garlic
- from hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
- front range — a mountain range extending from central Colorado to S Wyoming: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Grays Peak, 14,274 feet (4350 meters).
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- 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]>.
- gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get shot of — to get rid of
- get shut of — to get rid of
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- go off with — sb
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
- gold-filled — composed of a layer of gold backed with a base metal.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- golden orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- 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.