11-letter words containing f, n, o, r
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- profanation — the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
- profanatory — tending to desecrate; profaning.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- racing form — a sheet that provides detailed information about horse races, including background data on the horses, jockeys, etc.
- 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.
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- raster font — bitmap font
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- 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
- reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
- reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- 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).
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- run foul of — to collide with or become entangled in
- run-of-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
- salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- 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.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- sign on for — If you sign on for something, you officially agree to work for an organization or do a course of study by signing a contract or form.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow