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18-letter words containing f, e, r, o, t

  • quarry-tiled floor — a floor covered with square or diamond-shaped unglazed floor tiles
  • quick off the mark — If you are quick off the mark, you are quick to understand or respond to something. If you are slow off the mark, you are slow to understand or respond to something.
  • rabbit's-foot fern — hare's-foot fern.
  • rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
  • rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
  • raffinate recovery — Raffinate recovery is the use of a substance which is left after a process is complete and the desired substances have been removed.
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • reach for the moon — to desire or attempt something unattainable or difficult to obtain
  • reaction formation — a behavioral tendency developed in direct opposition to a repressed impulse.
  • real-estate office — the place where a real-estate agent works
  • recruiting officer — a person whose job is to recruit staff, esp on behalf of the military
  • recursive function — a function defined in terms of the repeated application of a number of simpler functions to their own values, by specifying a base clause and a recursion formula
  • reference counting — (programming)   A garbage collection technique where each memory cell contains a count of the number of other cells which point to it. If this count reaches zero the cell is freed and its pointers to other cells are followed to decrement their counts, and so on recursively. This technique cannot cope with circular data structures. Cells in such structures refer (indirectly) to themselves and so will never have a zero reference count. This means they would never be reclaimed, even when there are no references from outside the structure.
  • reflection density — a measure of the extent to which a surface reflects light or other electromagnetic radiation, equal to the logarithm to base ten of the reciprocal of the reflectance
  • refrigerated lorry — a lorry which is chilled in the back as for storing food
  • reinforced plastic — plastic with fibrous matter, such as carbon fibre, embedded in it to confer additional strength
  • repeat performance — sth done again
  • reproduction proof — repro proof.
  • restraint of trade — action tending to interrupt the free flow of goods and services, as by price fixing and other practices that have the effect of reducing competition.
  • return to the fold — come back home
  • return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
  • rule of engagement — a directive issued by a military authority controlling the use and degree of force, especially specifying circumstances and limitations for engaging in combat.
  • russian federation — a republic extending from E Europe to N and W Asia. 6,593,000 sq. mi. (17,076,000 sq. km). Capital: Moscow.
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • school certificate — (in England and Wales between 1917 and 1951 and currently in New Zealand) a certificate awarded to school pupils who pass a public examination: the equivalent of GCSE
  • scientific officer — a police officer who carries out forensic examinations
  • scruff of the neck — If someone takes you by the scruff of the neck, they take hold of the back of your neck or collar suddenly and roughly.
  • secretary of state — the head and chief administrator of the U.S. Department of State. Compare foreign minister.
  • security of tenure — (in Britain) the right of a tenant to continue to occupy a dwelling or site unless the landlord obtains a court order for possession of the property or termination of the tenancy agreement
  • self-certification — statement of sick leave
  • self-contradiction — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-contradictory — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-determination — determination by oneself or itself, without outside influence.
  • self-fertilization — Botany. fertilization of an ovum of a plant by a male gamete from the same flower (opposed to cross-fertilization).
  • self-glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • self-gratification — the act of pleasing or satisfying oneself, especially the gratifying of one's own impulses, needs, or desires.
  • self-incrimination — the act of incriminating oneself or exposing oneself to prosecution, especially by giving evidence or testimony.
  • self-instructional — pertaining to or constituting learning materials and conditions arranged so that students can proceed to learn on their own with little or no supervision.
  • self-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • self-mortification — the inflicting of pain or privation on oneself: He was certain that self-mortification was the only road to salvation.
  • self-preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • self-recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
  • sell oneself short — If you sell someone short, you do not point out their good qualities as much as you should or do as much for them as you should.
  • senior aircraftman — a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army, though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
  • sense of direction — Your sense of direction is your ability to know roughly where you are, or which way to go, even when you are in an unfamiliar place.
  • shatterproof glass — glass designed to resist shattering
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • shoot from the hip — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • sixth-form college — (in England and Wales) a college offering A-level and other courses to pupils over sixteen from local schools, esp from those that do not have sixth forms
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