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11-letter words containing a, t, f, r

  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
  • refrigerate — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
  • reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
  • retransform — to transform back, again or differently
  • return fare — the fare charged for a return journey; a two-way fare
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • rift valley — graben.
  • risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
  • road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • safari suit — a suit consisting of a bush jacket and matching trousers.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • 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.
  • schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
  • screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
  • sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
  • sheriffalty — shrievalty.
  • shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
  • sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
  • slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
  • soft sawder — flattery; compliments
  • soft target — sth easy to hit
  • soft x-rays — a type of x-ray that has its wavelength between 20 and 200 angstroms
  • soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
  • softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • sonata form — a musical form comprising an exposition, in which the main theme or themes are stated, a development section, a recapitulation of the material in the exposition, and, usually, a coda.
  • sparrowfart — the very early morning
  • speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • st. francis — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
  • staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
  • steamfitter — a highly skilled person who installs and repairs pipes for air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, and heating systems
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
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