11-letter words containing n, i, t, r, a, g
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- propagation — the act of propagating.
- prorogation — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- rasterising — (algorithm) A transformation that can be applied to an image to prepare it for printing. Rasterising reduces resolution by a factor of typically four to eight. It also reduces sensitivity to paper properties. Rasterising can be combined with dithering.
- rasterizing — rasterising
- rat-running — the practice of driving through residential side streets to avoid congested main roads
- ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
- ray casting — (graphics) A simplified form of ray tracing. A ray is fired from each pixel in the view plane, and information is accumulated from all the voxels in the volume data it intersects. Each voxel is first given an associated colour and opacity. The ray is sampled at a fixed number of evenly spaced locations and the colour and opacity are trilinearly interpolated from the eight nearest voxels. These are then composed linearly back to front to give a single colour for the pixel. Ray casting was invented by John Carmack for the game Wolfenstein 3D. It is faster and lower quality than ray tracing, and is ideal for interactive applications. It parallelises well, although random access is needed to the voxels.
- ray tracing — (graphics) A technique used in computer graphics to create realistic images by calculating the paths taken by rays of light entering the observer's eye at different angles. The paths are traced backward from the viewpoint, through a point (a pixel) in the image plane until they hit some object in the scene or go off to infinity. Objects are modelled as collections of abutting surfaces which may be rectangles, triangles, or more complicated shapes such as 3D splines. The optical properties of different surfaces (colour, reflectance, transmitance, refraction, texture) also affect how it will contribute to the colour and brightness of the ray. The position, colour, and brightness of light sources, including ambient lighting, is also taken into account. Ray tracing is an ideal application for parallel processing since there are many pixels, each of whose values is independent and can thus be calculated in parallel. Compare: radiosity.
- realignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- redesignate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- 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.
- refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- regurgitant — to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.
- reintegrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- reiterating — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
- remigration — the act or process of returning or migrating back to the place of origin
- renegotiate — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- revaluating — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- right angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one quarter of the circle; the angle formed by two perpendicular lines that intersect; an angle of 90°.
- right brain — the right cerebral hemisphere of the human brain, which includes areas associated with abstraction, artistic ability, and emotional response
- ring magnet — a ring-shaped permanent magnet.
- ring-tailed — having the tail ringed with alternating colors, as a raccoon.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- rising star — up-and-coming performer
- risk-taking — courting danger or loss
- rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
- rowing boat — rowboat.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
- springwater — water from a spring
- st.-germain — St.-Germain-en-Laye.