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11-letter words containing l, a, f, r, e

  • prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
  • prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
  • proliferate — spread
  • prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quarterlife — designating the period of life immediately following adolescence, usually the early twenties to early thirties
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • referential — having reference: referential to something.
  • reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
  • refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refuellable — capable of being refuelled
  • 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 road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
  • rift valley — graben.
  • rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
  • 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.
  • saddle roof — curved covering for a building
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • sales force — team of salespeople
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
  • self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
  • self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
  • self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • self-regard — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-slayer — one who kills oneself.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
  • shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
  • sheriffalty — shrievalty.
  • silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
  • 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.
  • solar flare — flare (def 22).
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
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