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11-letter words containing f, a, r

  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
  • rastafarian — a follower of Rastafarianism.
  • 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.
  • refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
  • refrigerate — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • refuellable — capable of being refuelled
  • 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).
  • relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
  • 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
  • rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
  • 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.
  • rift valley — graben.
  • rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
  • risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
  • road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
  • roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
  • rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
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