11-letter words containing g, u, r, f
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- 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.
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- right stuff — the necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities, as courage, confidence, dependability, toughness, or daring (usually preceded by the).
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
- 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-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- 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.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- trough roof — M roof.
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
- unfaltering — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- unforgeable — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- unforgiving — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unforgotten — a past participle of forget.
- unfreighted — goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
- unglorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- ungratified — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- uninforming — not informative
- uninfringed — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
- unprofiting — the lack of profit or gain
- unregretful — full of regret; sorrowful because of what is lost, gone, or done.
- windsurfing — a form of sailing in which a flexible sail, free to move in any direction, is mounted on a surfboard and the craft guided by the standing rider.
- wrong fount — an error in which a type of the wrong face or size is used