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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.
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