13-letter words containing f, r, i, o
- press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
- profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
- profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- prolification — the production of offspring
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- rabbit's foot — the foot of a rabbit, especially the left hind foot carried as a good-luck charm.
- radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
- railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- rational form — a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- reaffirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- rectification — the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
- reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
- retrofittings — acts of retrofitting
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
- right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- root of unity — a complex number that when raised to some positive integral power results in 1.