11-letter words containing f, r, o, u
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overfulness — the state of being too full
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- ovuliferous — holding ovules
- oxford blue — a dark blue colour
- oxford rule — a type that prints a thick line together with and parallel to a thin one.
- ozoniferous — containing ozone.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- 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.
- powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
- powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- reformulate — to formulate 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.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
- rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
- rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
- 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.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow