11-letter words containing o, i, l, f, c
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- 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]>.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- holy office — a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held dangerous to faith and morals.
- honorifical — honorific
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- inflections — Plural form of inflection.
- inflictions — Plural form of infliction.
- infomercial — a long commercial that informs or instructs, especially in an original and entertaining manner: an infomercial on making Christmas decorations using the sponsor's brand of glue.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- lecythiform — (biology, mycology) shaped like a bowling pin, a flask, or a bottle.
- loan office — an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
- locofocoism — the doctrines of the Locofocos.
- loriciferan — (zoology) Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
- lyon-office — Heralds' Office.
- macrofossil — a fossil large enough to be studied and identified without the use of a microscope.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microfibril — a microtubule, microfilament, or other fine threadlike structure of a cell.
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm
- microfilmed — Simple past tense and past participle of microfilm.
- microfilmer — a person who microfilms
- microfilter — a device plugged into a phone socket to separate the phone line from the broadband line
- microfloppy — Alternative spelling of micro-floppy.
- microfloral — Of or pertaining to microflora.
- microfossil — a fossil so small that it can be studied and identified only with a microscope.
- microrelief — surface features of the earth of small dimensions, commonly less than 50 feet (15 meters).
- multifactor — Of or pertaining to more than one factor.
- multifocals — multifocal spectacles
- nonofficial — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- off-licence — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- off-license — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- office girl — a girl or young woman employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
- officialdom — the class or entire body of officials; officials as a whole.
- officialese — a style of language used in some official statements, often criticized for its use of polysyllabic jargon and obscure, pretentiously wordy phrasing.
- officialise — to make official; place under official authority or control.
- officialism — excessive attention to official regulations and routines.
- officialize — to make official; place under official authority or control.