11-letter words containing t, i, f, o
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- profanation — the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- profiterole — a small cream puff with a sweet or savory filling, as of cream and chocolate sauce.
- profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
- proliferate — spread
- prolificity — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- rabbit food — raw vegetables, especially those used in salads, as lettuce, carrots, radishes, or celery.
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- refactoring — (object-oriented, programming) Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
- refectioner — a person in charge of a refectory
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
- reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- refortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- reinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- reptiliform — having the form or appearance of a reptile
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
- self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- set fire to — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- set on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- sinfonietta — a short symphony.