11-letter words containing g, r, i, f, n
- kingfishers — Plural form of kingfisher.
- kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
- nightfaring — journeying at night, travelling abroad by night
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- nonfreezing — not given or subject to freezing.
- off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- overfeeding — the act of feeding too much
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- 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.
- 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.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- 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.
- referencing — an act or instance of referring.
- refinancing — to finance again.
- reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
- refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
- refringence — refractivity.
- 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.
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- rifle green — a dark olive green, as in the uniforms of certain rifle regiments
- rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
- ring finger — the finger next to the little finger, especially of the left hand, on which an engagement ring or wedding band is traditionally worn.
- running fix — a fix made from a moving vessel or aircraft from observations made at different times, the course and distance run between the observations being considered.
- self-rising — rising without the addition of leaven: self-rising pancake flour.
- self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
- sign on for — If you sign on for something, you officially agree to work for an organization or do a course of study by signing a contract or form.
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- spacefaring — space travel
- springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- trafficking — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.