11-letter words containing i, n, f, r, e
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- 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.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- 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.
- refectioner — a person in charge of a refectory
- referencing — an act or instance of referring.
- referential — having reference: referential to something.
- refinancing — to finance again.
- refinedness — the quality or state of being refined; refinement
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
- reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- 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.
- reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- reinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- relief fund — a fund of money set up to provide aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- 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.
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- run-of-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- self-driven — (of a machine) containing its own power source, as an engine or motor.
- self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
- self-rising — rising without the addition of leaven: self-rising pancake flour.
- self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
- set on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
- silver fern — a formalized spray of fern leaf, silver on a black background: the symbol of New Zealand sporting teams, esp the All Blacks
- snail fever — schistosomiasis.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- spacefaring — space travel
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.