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11-letter words containing c, o, e, f

  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
  • pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
  • pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
  • pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
  • prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
  • proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
  • 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.
  • reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • 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.
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
  • rockefeller — John D(avison) [dey-vuh-suh n] /ˈdeɪ və sən/ (Show IPA), 1839–1937, and his son John D(avison), Jr. 1874–1960, U.S. oil magnates and philanthropists.
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
  • sales force — team of salespeople
  • scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
  • schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
  • school fees — the money paid for a person to go to school
  • school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
  • scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
  • second self — one who associates so closely with a given person as to assume that person's mode of behavior, personality, beliefs, etc.
  • second-feet — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • second-foot — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
  • shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
  • shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
  • silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • social life — leisure time spent with other people
  • soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
  • soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • speech form — linguistic form.
  • 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.
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