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11-letter words containing r, a, s, t, f

  • master file — Computers. a permanent file, periodically updated, that serves as an authoritative source of data.
  • masterfully — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
  • misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
  • most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
  • nasofrontal — of or relating to the nasal and frontal bones
  • obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • oceanfronts — Plural form of oceanfront.
  • olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
  • overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
  • oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
  • park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
  • parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
  • pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
  • perfect gas — ideal gas.
  • presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
  • priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
  • pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
  • profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
  • proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
  • puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • 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
  • rastafarian — a follower of Rastafarianism.
  • raster font — bitmap font
  • re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • retransform — to transform back, again or differently
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • 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.
  • road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
  • safari suit — a suit consisting of a bush jacket and matching trousers.
  • 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.
  • schoolcraftHenry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
  • screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
  • sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
  • shaftesburyAnthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
  • sheriffalty — shrievalty.
  • shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
  • sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
  • slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
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