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11-letter words containing f, a, e, n

  • rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
  • 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
  • rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
  • raster font — bitmap font
  • 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.
  • referendary — a referee who resolves disputes or makes decisions
  • referential — having reference: referential to something.
  • refinancing — to finance again.
  • reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
  • reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
  • 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.
  • rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
  • roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • run a fever — have a high temperature
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
  • saint felix — Saint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
  • san stefano — the former name of Yesilkoy, a town in Turkey, near Istanbul: treaty between Russia and Turkey 1878.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
  • self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • significate — something signified
  • sinfonietta — a short symphony.
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • snail fever — schistosomiasis.
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • snake fence — a fence, zigzag in plan, made of rails resting across one another at an angle.
  • sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
  • steak knife — a sharp dinner knife the blade of which is made of steel and usually serrated, used in cutting meat.
  • stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
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