16-letter words containing f, o, t, r
- period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
- permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
- personal effects — belongings
- petrified forest — a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- plaster of paris — calcined gypsum in white, powdery form, used as a base for gypsum plasters, as an additive of lime plasters, and as a material for making fine and ornamental casts: characterized by its ability to set rapidly when mixed with water.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
- post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- powerpc platform — (architecture, standard) (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
- preference stock — preferred stock.
- prespecification — the act of specifying.
- proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
- proof of concept — the stage during the development of a product when it is established that the product will function as intended
- proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
- put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
- put your feet up — If you put your feet up, you relax or have a rest, especially by sitting or lying with your feet supported off the ground.
- radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- rational fortran — (language) (RATFOR) Brian Kernighan's Fortran preprocessor that allows programming with C-like control flow. RATFOR is mainly of historical significance. A translator from Ratfor to Fortran IV was posted to comp.sources.Unix volume 13.
- reasons of state — political justifications for an immoral act
- reclassification — categorization in a different way
- reconnection fee — an amount of money that a company charges customers in order to reconnect their supply of electricity, water, gas, or telephone after it has been stopped
- red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
- refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
- refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
- registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
- right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
- romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
- root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
- rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
- rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
- saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
- seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
- security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
- self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.