11-letter words containing r, i, o, t
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- freight ton — ton1 (def 2).
- freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
- freight-ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- frivolities — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- front-drive — (of an automotive vehicle) having front-wheel drive.
- frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
- frost point — the temperature of the air at which hoarfrost begins to form.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- frotteurism — (sexuality) The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage).
- frotteurist — A frotteur.
- fructuation — the process of producing fruit
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- gastrodynia — (pathology) gastralgia (stomach pain).
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gastronomic — the art or science of good eating.
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- generations — Plural form of generation.
- geocentrism — A belief that Earth is the center of the universe and does not move.
- geoisotherm — isogeotherm.
- geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geometrized — Simple past tense and past participle of geometrize.
- geosteering — Geosteering is the process of directing the drill bit to high-quality parts of the reservoir using petrophysical (=relating to the physical qualities of rock) data.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- germination — to begin to grow or develop.
- gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- gestatorial — related to carrying
- ghost train — a small train at an amusement park that travels through a dark tunnel in which sounds, lights, and mechanized objects are used to scare the people in the train
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostscript — (graphics, tool) The GNU interpreter for PostScript and PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch <[email protected]> of Aladdin Enterprises. The first public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- giant otter — a large brown South American river otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, having a creamy chest patch and a long flat tail with a flanged border, hunted for its hide: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
- go straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- going train — the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time.
- goitrogenic — tending to produce goiter.