11-letter words containing a, f, i, n, c
- metafiction — fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- misfeasance — a wrong, actual or alleged, arising from or consisting of affirmative action.
- neo-fascism — a modern right-wing political movement that includes significant elements of fascism, esp inspired by fascist Italy
- neo-fascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- neofascists — Plural form of neofascist.
- nonofficial — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- officiating — Present participle of officiate Serving in an official capacity or serving as an official at a contest.
- officiation — to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
- pan-african — of or relating to all African nations or peoples.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- racing flag — a distinguishing flag flown by a yacht during the period of its participation in a race.
- racing form — a sheet that provides detailed information about horse races, including background data on the horses, jockeys, etc.
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- refactoring — (object-oriented, programming) Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
- refinancing — to finance again.
- reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- satisficing — the act of satisficing
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- significant — important; of consequence.
- significate — something signified
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- spacefaring — space travel
- st. francis — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- tachina fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars, beetles, and other insects.
- trafficking — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- tumefacient — tumefying; causing to swell.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- unaffecting — moving or exciting the feelings or emotions.
- unafflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- uncalcified — not calcified; not converted into lime
- unclarified — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- unification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.