0%

11-letter words containing u, n, f, r

  • naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
  • nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
  • neurofibril — a fibril of a nerve cell.
  • ninety-four — a cardinal number, 90 plus 4.
  • nonforceful — Not forceful.
  • offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
  • omnifarious — of all forms, varieties, or kinds.
  • out of turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • overfulness — the state of being too full
  • overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • ozoniferous — containing ozone.
  • perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season
  • plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
  • pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
  • pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
  • reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • 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.
  • relief fund — a fund of money set up to provide aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • return fare — the fare charged for a return journey; a two-way fare
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • run a fever — have a high temperature
  • run foul of — to collide with or become entangled in
  • run-of-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
  • running fix — a fix made from a moving vessel or aircraft from observations made at different times, the course and distance run between the observations being considered.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
  • self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
  • self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
  • snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
  • soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
  • somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
  • spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
  • staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • strengthful — full of strength, strong
  • strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
  • stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subfreezing — below the freezing point.
  • sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
  • sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?