11-letter words containing o, l, i, g, f
- 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]>.
- gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
- in light of — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- informingly — In an informing manner.
- jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour) The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
- lipofilling — the surgical transfer of fat removed by liposuction to areas of the body that need filling out.
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm
- midget golf — miniature golf.
- montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
- non-feeling — the function or the power of perceiving by touch.
- non-fouling — an encrusted deposit, especially on a submerged object, as the hull of a ship.
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- office girl — a girl or young woman employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.