11-letter words containing g, r, a, n, i
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- quarrelling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
- quaveringly — In a quavering manner; tremulously.
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- racializing — Present participle of racialize.
- racing flag — a distinguishing flag flown by a yacht during the period of its participation in a race.
- racing form — a sheet that provides detailed information about horse races, including background data on the horses, jockeys, etc.
- rag-rolling — a decorating technique in which paint is applied with a roughly folded cloth in order to create a marbled effect
- railroading — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- rangefinder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
- rasterising — (algorithm) A transformation that can be applied to an image to prepare it for printing. Rasterising reduces resolution by a factor of typically four to eight. It also reduces sensitivity to paper properties. Rasterising can be combined with dithering.
- rasterizing — rasterising
- rat-running — the practice of driving through residential side streets to avoid congested main roads
- ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- ray casting — (graphics) A simplified form of ray tracing. A ray is fired from each pixel in the view plane, and information is accumulated from all the voxels in the volume data it intersects. Each voxel is first given an associated colour and opacity. The ray is sampled at a fixed number of evenly spaced locations and the colour and opacity are trilinearly interpolated from the eight nearest voxels. These are then composed linearly back to front to give a single colour for the pixel. Ray casting was invented by John Carmack for the game Wolfenstein 3D. It is faster and lower quality than ray tracing, and is ideal for interactive applications. It parallelises well, although random access is needed to the voxels.
- ray tracing — (graphics) A technique used in computer graphics to create realistic images by calculating the paths taken by rays of light entering the observer's eye at different angles. The paths are traced backward from the viewpoint, through a point (a pixel) in the image plane until they hit some object in the scene or go off to infinity. Objects are modelled as collections of abutting surfaces which may be rectangles, triangles, or more complicated shapes such as 3D splines. The optical properties of different surfaces (colour, reflectance, transmitance, refraction, texture) also affect how it will contribute to the colour and brightness of the ray. The position, colour, and brightness of light sources, including ambient lighting, is also taken into account. Ray tracing is an ideal application for parallel processing since there are many pixels, each of whose values is independent and can thus be calculated in parallel. Compare: radiosity.
- reading age — the level of reading ability that a person has in comparison to an average child of a particular age
- reaganomics — the economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory.
- realignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- reasonings' — the act or process of a person who reasons.
- reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- redesignate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- 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.
- refinancing — to finance again.
- refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- regionalize — to divide or organize into regions for administrative purposes
- regurgitant — to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.
- reintegrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- reiterating — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
- relabelling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
- religionary — pertaining to religion
- remand wing — a special area within a prison for prisoners who are awaiting trial
- remigration — the act or process of returning or migrating back to the place of origin
- renegotiate — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- reorganizer — a person who reorganizes
- repaglinide — an oral drug used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, often in combination with metformin.
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- revaluating — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner