11-letter words containing d, a, f
- main-de-fer — manifer.
- mass defect — the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus differs from the sum of the masses of its constituent particles, being the mass equivalent of the energy released in the formation of the nucleus.
- microfarads — Plural form of microfarad.
- millifarads — Plural form of millifarad.
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- mutual fund — an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
- myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
- needlecraft — needlework.
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- nullifidian — a person who has no faith or religion; skeptic.
- off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
- offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- officialdom — the class or entire body of officials; officials as a whole.
- oil of cade — a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- overforward — too familiar
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- oxford gray — medium to dark gray.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- pasty-faced — having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- qualifiedly — With qualification; conditionally.
- rabbit food — raw vegetables, especially those used in salads, as lettuce, carrots, radishes, or celery.
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- rangefinder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
- readme file — (convention, documentation) A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
- referendary — a referee who resolves disputes or makes decisions
- reformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
- requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.