11-letter words containing c, f, o, r, t
- infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
- insectiform — resembling an insect
- interoffice — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lecythiform — (biology, mycology) shaped like a bowling pin, a flask, or a bottle.
- load factor — the amount or weight of cargo, number of passengers, etc., that an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel can carry.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- manufactory — a factory.
- microfilter — a device plugged into a phone socket to separate the phone line from the broadband line
- mothercraft — skill and knowledge in looking after children
- multifactor — Of or pertaining to more than one factor.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- oceanfronts — Plural form of oceanfront.
- octal forty — (jargon) Jargon for "I'm drawing a blank.", I can't work it out.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- olfactorily — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- overcertify — to certify (a bank check) for an amount greater than the balance in the drawer's account.
- p.p. factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- pacificator — to pacify.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- prolificity — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- 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.
- refectioner — a person in charge of a refectory
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- reinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- 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.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- 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.
- scroll foot — French foot (def 1).
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
- spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.