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12-letter words containing r, f, c

  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • police force — police (def 1).
  • pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
  • press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
  • price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • price freeze — temporary fixing of prices
  • price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
  • prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
  • qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
  • quarry-faced — rock-faced.
  • quick-freeze — to freeze (cooked or uncooked food) rapidly, permitting it to be stored almost indefinitely at freezing temperatures.
  • rachmaninoff — Sergei Wassilievitch [sur-gey vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1943, Russian pianist and composer.
  • radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
  • rail traffic — the vehicles, passengers, or freight that are moving from place to place by railway
  • raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
  • ratification — the act of ratifying; confirmation; sanction.
  • recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
  • reclassified — to classify anew.
  • recomforture — consolation; comfort
  • recover-from — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
  • reflectively — that reflects; reflecting.
  • reflectivity — that reflects; reflecting.
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reflectorize — to treat something so that it reflects light: to reflectorize license plates.
  • refractivity — the power to refract.
  • refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
  • refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
  • reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
  • respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • 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
  • roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
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