12-letter words containing r, d, f
- out of round — not having perfect roundness
- out-of-doors — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- out-of-round — not perfectly round.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflow pdl — (jargon) The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overfondness — excessive affection
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
- oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- pressed felt — Pressed felt is a material made from compressed fibers and used as a filter.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- proofreading — correction of text
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- push forward — keep advancing
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- range finder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rangefinding — the act or process of determining the distance of an object from the observer
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redefinition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- redispose of — to dispose of again
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- refrigerated — made frozen or cold, esp for preservative purposes; chilled or frozen
- richard korf — (person) A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- road traffic — traffic on the road
- rod from god — a weapon, currently in the development stage, that consists of a metal cylinder that is fired from an orbiting spacecraft at a target on earth. The cylinder is calculated to reach speeds in excess of 7000 mph, hitting its target with the power of a small atomic weapon
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.