11-letter words containing o, u, t, f, r
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
- reformulate — to formulate again.
- 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.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
- rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
- 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.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- sure-footed — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- thirty-four — a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
- thuriferous — producing frankincense
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
- trough roof — M roof.
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- try out for — If you try out for a sports team or an acting role, you compete or you perform a test in an attempt to be chosen.
- tubiflorous — tubuliflorous.
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
- twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
- two-by-four — two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
- typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
- uncomforted — not comforted or consoled
- unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
- unforfeited — not forfeited
- unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- unforgotten — a past participle of forget.
- unformatted — Computers. pertaining to a disk that has not been electronically prepared to receive files or other text; blank: You cannot save files on an unformatted disk.
- unfortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
- unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
- unmortified — not humiliated or shamed
- unprofiting — the lack of profit or gain