11-letter words containing u, n, o, f, i, c
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- income fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in stocks that are likely to continue to pay or increase dividends.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
- inofficious — being inconsistent with moral duty and natural affection.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- nonfunction — Failure to function; inoperativeness.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- 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.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- unconfident — lacking self-assurance
- unconfirmed — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
- unofficered — having no officer or officers
- unofficious — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- zinciferous — yielding or containing zinc.