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11-letter words containing n, a, o, f

  • nanofossils — Plural form of nanofossil.
  • nasofrontal — of or relating to the nasal and frontal bones
  • naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
  • nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
  • neo-fascism — a modern right-wing political movement that includes significant elements of fascism, esp inspired by fascist Italy
  • neo-fascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
  • neofascists — Plural form of neofascist.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • ninth of av — Tishah b'Av.
  • no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
  • non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
  • nonaffluent — not affluent or rich
  • nonfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
  • nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
  • nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
  • nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
  • nonofficial — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
  • normal form — 1.   (reduction)   In reduction systems, the state of a term which contains no reducible expressions. Variants include head normal form, weak head normal form. 2.   (database)   See database normalisation.
  • not hear of — to forbid or refuse to consider
  • nyu omnifax — Early system on UNIVAC I or II. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
  • obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • oceanfronts — Plural form of oceanfront.
  • off balance — If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
  • off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
  • offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
  • officiating — Present participle of officiate Serving in an official capacity or serving as an official at a contest.
  • officiation — to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
  • offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
  • old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
  • omnifarious — of all forms, varieties, or kinds.
  • on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
  • out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • out-of-band — 1.   (communications)   The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4.   (software)   Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
  • outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
  • overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
  • paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
  • passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
  • perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
  • performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
  • plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
  • poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
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