11-letter words containing o, c, t, f
- re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- 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
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
- 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.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- 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.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
- scroll foot — French foot (def 1).
- second-feet — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
- second-foot — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
- section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
- soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- take office — come to power
- thenceforth — from that time or place onward.
- third force — a political faction or party, etc., occupying an intermediate position between two others representing opposite extremes.
- ticking off — If you give someone a ticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
- toploftical — having a superior or disdainful attitude; toplofty
- tractorfeed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- traffic cop — a police officer who directs the flow of traffic, usually at an intersection.
- trafficator — a directional signal on a vehicle for indicating which way it is going to turn.
- trench foot — injury of the skin, blood vessels, and nerves of the feet due to prolonged exposure to cold and wet, common among soldiers serving in trenches.
- tretchikoff — Vladimir. 1913–2006, South African painter, born in Russia, known for his kitsch appeal, especially for his much-reproduced Chinese Girl (1950; also known as The Green Lady)
- trichlorfon — metrifonate.