11-letter words containing u, f, o
- from nature — using natural models in drawing, painting, etc
- front court — the section of the court nearest the front wall in certain games, as squash or handball.
- frontcourts — Plural form of frontcourt.
- frontrunner — a person who leads in any competition.
- frotteurism — (sexuality) The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage).
- frotteurist — A frotteur.
- fructuation — the process of producing fruit
- frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- fuck around — to have sexual intercourse with.
- fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- full nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes each arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the arms at the fingers or wrists on the back of the opponent's neck.
- full-bodied — of full strength, flavor, richness, etc.: full-bodied wine; full-bodied writing.
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- fulsomeness — The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
- functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- funduscopic — Relating to funduscopy.
- funemployed — without a paid job but enjoying the free time: Ask one of your funemployed friends to come along with you.
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- funny money — counterfeit currency.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furciferous — (archaic) rascally; scandalous.
- furiousness — The state or quality of being furious or outraged; enragement; inflamedness.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- furthermore — moreover; besides; in addition: Furthermore, he left orders not to be disturbed.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- fushionless — lacking strength or spirit
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- fusion food — food which is made using a style of cooking which combines traditional Western techniques and ingredients with those used in Eastern cuisine
- fuss around — to engage in idle, aimless, or annoying activity
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- futz around — to pass time in idleness (usually followed by around).
- 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]>.