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

  • perfect gas — ideal gas.
  • perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
  • perforative — that perforates readily
  • performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
  • plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
  • pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
  • prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
  • prefinanced — financed in advance
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
  • priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
  • prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
  • proliferate — spread
  • prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
  • proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
  • quarter cif — (communications, standard)   (QCIF), a video format standard used in videoconferencing, that transfers one fourth as much data as Common Intermediate Format (CIF). QCIF is defined in ITU H.261 as having 144 lines and 176 pixels per line, with half as many chrominance pixels in each direction. QCIF is suitable for videoconferencing systems that use telephone lines. The codec standard specifies that QCIF compatibility is mandatory, and CIF compatibility is optional.
  • quarterlife — designating the period of life immediately following adolescence, usually the early twenties to early thirties
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
  • 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
  • re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • 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".
  • rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • 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.
  • refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
  • reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
  • 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.
  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
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