11-letter words starting with fu
- funnel cake — a crisp, deep-fried cake, made by pouring batter through a funnel into fat or oil, usually in a spiral shape, and dusted with powdered sugar.
- funny money — counterfeit currency.
- funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- 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.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- furnishings — furnishings. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room. articles or accessories of dress: men's furnishings.
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- furtherment — The act or process of furthering; furtherance.
- 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
- furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- 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
- fussbudgets — Plural form of fussbudget.
- fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
- fustigating — Present participle of fustigate.
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- fustilirian — a person who uses a cudgel rather than a sword; hence, a lowly person or a commoner (from Henry IV by William Shakespeare)
- future life — afterlife (def 1).
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- 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]>.
- fuzzy-wuzzy — a Black fuzzy-haired native of any of various countries