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11-letter words containing t, r, o, u, f

  • put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • 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.
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
  • septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
  • soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
  • sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
  • superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
  • sure-footed — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
  • surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
  • tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
  • thirty-four — a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
  • thuriferous — producing frankincense
  • transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
  • trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
  • trough roof — M roof.
  • true fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • try out for — If you try out for a sports team or an acting role, you compete or you perform a test in an attempt to be chosen.
  • tubiflorous — tubuliflorous.
  • tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
  • twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
  • two-by-four — two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
  • typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
  • uncomforted — not comforted or consoled
  • unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
  • unforfeited — not forfeited
  • unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • unforgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • unformatted — Computers. pertaining to a disk that has not been electronically prepared to receive files or other text; blank: You cannot save files on an unformatted disk.
  • unfortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
  • unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
  • unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
  • unmortified — not humiliated or shamed
  • unprofiting — the lack of profit or gain
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