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18-letter words containing t, f, o, r

  • out of the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
  • overdraft facility — a facility (of a bank or building-society cheque account) that allows a withdrawal of money in excess of the account's credit balance
  • overdraft interest — interest charged on money withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • overidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
  • pair of spectacles — a score of 0 in each innings of a match
  • par for the course — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
  • patron of the arts — someone who acts as a patron to or supports charities, organizations, and individuals that work in or concern the arts
  • pave the way (for) — to prepare the way (for); facilitate the introduction (of)
  • pellitory of spain — a small Mediterranean plant, Anacyclus pyrethrum, the root of which contains an oil formerly used to relieve toothache: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • perfect continuous — perfect progressive.
  • perfect contrition — sincere penitence or remorse.
  • perforated tracery — tracery, as in early Gothic architecture, formed of cut or pierced slabs of stone set on edge with the flat side outward.
  • performance artist — an artist that is involved in a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc
  • peter and the wolf — a composition by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1936. It is a children's story with both music and text, spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra
  • pick of the litter — objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
  • pilotless aircraft — an aircraft equipped for operation by radio or by robot control, without a human pilot aboard; drone.
  • point of departure — Nautical. the precise location of a vessel, established in order to set a course, especially in beginning a voyage in open water.
  • point of no return — Aviation. the point in a flight at which an aircraft will lack sufficient fuel to return to its starting point.
  • point of reference — A point of reference is something which you use to help you understand a situation or communicate with someone.
  • population figures — population totals; statistics relating to the size of populations
  • portrait of a lady — a novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • potassium fluoride — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, toxic powder, KF, used chiefly as an insecticide, a disinfectant, and in etching glass.
  • power-on self-test — (hardware, testing)   (POST) A sequence of diagnostic tests that are run automatically by a device when the power is turned on. In a personal computer a typical POST sequence does the following: - checks that the system board is working - checks that the memory is working - compares the current system configuration with that recorded by the PC's configuration program to see if anything has been added or removed or broken - starts the video operation - checks that the diskette drive, hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive, and any other drives that may be installed are working. When POST is finished, typically it will beep, and then let your operating system start to boot. If POST finds an error, it may beep more than once (or possibly not at all if it is your PC speaker that is broken) and display a POST error message. These messages are often nothing more than a single ominous number. Some common numbers and their meanings are: 161 Dead battery (get a new battery for the system board) 162 Configuration changed (you added some memory or a new card to the PC) 301 Keyboard error (take the book off the corner of the keyboard) Because a successful POST indicates that the system is restored to known state, turning the power off and on is a standard way to reset a system whose software has hung. Compare 120 reset, Big Red Switch, power cycle.
  • prefect of studies — a senior master in a Jesuit school or college
  • preferred position — especially desirable advertising space for which, if it is specifically requested by the advertiser, a publication charges a premium rate.
  • presumption of law — a presumption based upon a policy of law or a general rule and not upon the facts or evidence in an individual case.
  • primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • process identifier — (operating system)   (PID) An integer used by the Unix kernel to uniquely identify a process. PIDs are returned by the fork system call and can be passed to wait() or kill() to perform actions on the given process.
  • product life cycle — the four stages (introduction, growth, maturity, and decline) into one of which the sales of a product fall during its market life
  • programme of study — the prescribed syllabus that pupils must be taught at each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • protein deficiency — a lack or insuffiency of protein
  • provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
  • purple loosestrife — an Old World plant, Lythrum salicaria, of the loosestrife family, widely naturalized in North America, growing in wet places and having spikes of reddish-purple flowers.
  • put your foot down — If someone puts their foot down, they use their authority in order to stop something happening.
  • quality of service — (communications, networking)   (QoS) The performance properties of a network service, possibly including throughput, transit delay, priority. Some protocols allow packets or streams to include QoS requirements.
  • quarry-tiled floor — a floor covered with square or diamond-shaped unglazed floor tiles
  • quick off the mark — If you are quick off the mark, you are quick to understand or respond to something. If you are slow off the mark, you are slow to understand or respond to something.
  • rabbit's-foot fern — hare's-foot fern.
  • rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
  • rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
  • radius of gyration — the distance from an axis at which the mass of a body may be assumed to be concentrated and at which the moment of inertia will be equal to the moment of inertia of the actual mass about the axis, equal to the square root of the quotient of the moment of inertia and the mass.
  • raffinate recovery — Raffinate recovery is the use of a substance which is left after a process is complete and the desired substances have been removed.
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • reach for the moon — to desire or attempt something unattainable or difficult to obtain
  • reaction formation — a behavioral tendency developed in direct opposition to a repressed impulse.
  • real-estate office — the place where a real-estate agent works
  • recruiting officer — a person whose job is to recruit staff, esp on behalf of the military
  • recursive function — a function defined in terms of the repeated application of a number of simpler functions to their own values, by specifying a base clause and a recursion formula
  • reference counting — (programming)   A garbage collection technique where each memory cell contains a count of the number of other cells which point to it. If this count reaches zero the cell is freed and its pointers to other cells are followed to decrement their counts, and so on recursively. This technique cannot cope with circular data structures. Cells in such structures refer (indirectly) to themselves and so will never have a zero reference count. This means they would never be reclaimed, even when there are no references from outside the structure.
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