11-letter words containing n, i, t, r, f
- metrifonate — an organophosphorus compound, C 4 H 8 Cl 3 O 4 P, used as an insecticide and anthelmintic.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
- next friend — a person other than a duly appointed guardian who acts on behalf of an infant or other person not fully qualified by law to act on his or her own behalf.
- nightfaring — journeying at night, travelling abroad by night
- ninety-four — a cardinal number, 90 plus 4.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- omniformity — the state or quality of being omniform
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- 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.
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- 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
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- profanation — the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- rastafarian — a follower of Rastafarianism.
- 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
- referential — having reference: referential to something.
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- 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.
- refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
- 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).
- 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.
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- 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.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- st. francis — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air