11-letter words containing f, i, r, e, a
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- off the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- office park — a complex of office buildings located on land planted with lawns, trees, bushes, etc.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
- paper knife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- paraffinize — paraffin (def 4).
- parfocalize — to make parfocal
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- 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
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- referential — having reference: referential to something.
- refinancing — to finance again.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- 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.