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16-letter words containing r, t, f

  • put your feet up — If you put your feet up, you relax or have a rest, especially by sitting or lying with your feet supported off the ground.
  • quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • rate of exchange — exchange rate.
  • rational fortran — (language)   (RATFOR) Brian Kernighan's Fortran preprocessor that allows programming with C-like control flow. RATFOR is mainly of historical significance. A translator from Ratfor to Fortran IV was posted to comp.sources.Unix volume 13.
  • rattlesnake fern — any of several American grape ferns, especially Botrychium virginianium, having clusters of sporangia resembling the rattles of a rattlesnake.
  • rattlesnake flag — any of a number of U.S. flags that bear a picture of a rattlesnake and the motto “Don't Tread on Me,” especially those used during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
  • reasons of state — political justifications for an immoral act
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
  • reconnection fee — an amount of money that a company charges customers in order to reconnect their supply of electricity, water, gas, or telephone after it has been stopped
  • rectified spirit — a constant-boiling mixture of ethanol and water, containing 95.6 per cent ethanol
  • red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
  • reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
  • refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
  • refractive index — index of refraction.
  • refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
  • refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
  • refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
  • registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
  • reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
  • romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
  • root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
  • rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
  • rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
  • run interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
  • sabattier effect — the alteration of the image tones of a photographic print by briefly reexposing the negative after it has been partially developed.
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • safety standards — standards prescribed (by a regulatory body, etc) that must be adhered to to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
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