11-letter words containing c, o, f, i, n
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- metafiction — fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
- metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- 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.
- non-fiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
- nonfunction — Failure to function; inoperativeness.
- noninfected — not infected or subject to infection
- nonofficial — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- nonspecific — Not detailed or exact; general.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- off-licence — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- off-license — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- 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.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- omnificence — creating all things; having unlimited powers of creation.
- penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- 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.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- 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.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
- silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite