11-letter words containing f, o, r, g
- montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- nonfreezing — not given or subject to freezing.
- off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
- office girl — a girl or young woman employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfeeding — the act of feeding too much
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overfreight — to load too heavily
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- oxford gray — medium to dark gray.
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- racing form — a sheet that provides detailed information about horse races, including background data on the horses, jockeys, etc.
- 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.
- reflexology — a system of massaging specific areas of the foot or sometimes the hand in order to promote healing, relieve stress, etc., in other parts of the body.
- reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
- 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.
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- robber frog — any of numerous small frogs of the genera Eleutherodactylus and Hylactophryne, living chiefly in the American tropics.
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
- self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- 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.
- 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
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- soft target — sth easy to hit
- 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]>.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- trough roof — M roof.
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
- unforgeable — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- unforgiving — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.