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

  • 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.
  • refortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • reptiliform — having the form or appearance of a reptile
  • retransform — to transform back, again or differently
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • 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.
  • roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
  • rostovtzeff — Michael Ivanovich [mahy-kuh l i-vah-nuh-vich] /ˈmaɪ kəl ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1952, U.S. historian, born in Russia.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
  • self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
  • set fire to — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • set on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
  • soft sawder — flattery; compliments
  • soft solder — a solder fusible at temperatures below 700°F (370°C), generally an alloy of lead and tin.
  • soft target — sth easy to hit
  • soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
  • softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • 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.
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • store front — Store fronts are the windows of stores that can be looked into from the street, often displaying the types of product each store sells.
  • storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • street food — ready-to-eat food sold on the street or in a park, open-air market, or other outdoor public place.
  • strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
  • styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
  • 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.
  • superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
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