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11-letter words containing f, e, r, o, c

  • proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
  • rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
  • re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • 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
  • refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
  • 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.
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
  • rockefeller — John D(avison) [dey-vuh-suh n] /ˈdeɪ və sən/ (Show IPA), 1839–1937, and his son John D(avison), Jr. 1874–1960, U.S. oil magnates and philanthropists.
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • sales force — team of salespeople
  • shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
  • soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
  • speech form — linguistic form.
  • spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
  • storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
  • sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
  • surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
  • thenceforth — from that time or place onward.
  • third force — a political faction or party, etc., occupying an intermediate position between two others representing opposite extremes.
  • tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
  • tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
  • tractorfeed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
  • trench foot — injury of the skin, blood vessels, and nerves of the feet due to prolonged exposure to cold and wet, common among soldiers serving in trenches.
  • tretchikoff — Vladimir. 1913–2006, South African painter, born in Russia, known for his kitsch appeal, especially for his much-reproduced Chinese Girl (1950; also known as The Green Lady)
  • true fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • uncared for — If you describe people or animals as uncared for, you mean that they have not been looked after properly and as a result are hungry, dirty, or ill.
  • uncared-for — untended; neglected; unkempt: The garden had an uncared-for look.
  • uncomforted — not comforted or consoled
  • unconfirmed — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • unconformed — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
  • unforceable — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
  • unofficered — having no officer or officers
  • verruciform — in the shape of a wart
  • view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
  • vinton cerf — Vint Cerf
  • vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
  • vociferance — vociferant utterance; vociferation.
  • whenceforth — from which time or place forward
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