12-letter words containing f, r, a, c
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
- pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- rachmaninoff — Sergei Wassilievitch [sur-gey vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1943, Russian pianist and composer.
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- rail traffic — the vehicles, passengers, or freight that are moving from place to place by railway
- raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
- ratification — the act of ratifying; confirmation; sanction.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- refractivity — the power to refract.
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- richard korf — (person) A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- road traffic — traffic on the road
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- roof terrace — a garden on the roof of a building
- rotator cuff — a bandlike structure encircling and supporting the shoulder joint, formed by four muscles attached to and merging with the joint capsule.
- rotflmaoastc — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off and scaring the cat. The superlative form of ROTFL.
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scarificator — a person who scarifies.
- scire facias — a writ requiring the party against whom it is brought to show cause why a judgment, letters patent, etc., should not be executed, vacated, or annulled.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.