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11-letter words containing u, y

  • forty hours — a Roman Catholic devotion in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for veneration for 40 hours by the churches of a diocese sequentially for two-day periods.
  • four-by-two — a piece of timber with a cross section that measures 4 inches by 2 inches
  • fractiously — In a fractious manner.
  • fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
  • frivolously — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
  • fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
  • fuddy-duddy — a person who is stuffy, old-fashioned, and conservative.
  • fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
  • funemployed — without a paid job but enjoying the free time: Ask one of your funemployed friends to come along with you.
  • 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.
  • funny money — counterfeit currency.
  • funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
  • furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
  • fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
  • 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]>.
  • fuzzy-wuzzy — a Black fuzzy-haired native of any of various countries
  • gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
  • garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
  • gippy tummy — diarrhoea, esp as experienced by visitors to hot climates
  • glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
  • glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
  • glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
  • gomme syrup — simple syrup.
  • good on you — well done, well said, etc: a term of congratulation
  • gouty stool — a footstool of the 18th century having a top adjustable to a variety of angles.
  • grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
  • granularity — of the nature of granules; grainy.
  • granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
  • grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
  • gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
  • greedy guts — a glutton
  • grey mullet — any teleost food fish of the family Mugilidae, mostly occurring in coastal regions, having a spindle-shaped body and a broad fleshy mouth
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • gruellingly — In a gruelling manner.
  • grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
  • guarantying — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
  • guilelessly — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
  • guiltlessly — free from guilt; innocent.
  • gullibility — easily deceived or cheated.
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
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