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16-letter words containing a, c, i, s

  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • ramsden eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
  • real-time pascal — (language)   A later name for Pascal-80 by RC International, Denmark.
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
  • recreational sex — sex for the purpose of pleasure rather than reproduction, without the commitment of a relationship
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • register dancing — Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers. This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation. Some designs with this problem, like the Intel 80x86, do have a handful of special-purpose registers that can be pressed into service, providing suitable care is taken to avoid unpleasant side effects on the state of the processor: while the special-purpose register is being used to hold an intermediate value, a delicate minuet is required in which the previous value of the register is saved and then restored just before the official function (and value) of the special-purpose register is again needed.
  • reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
  • relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • relocation costs — payment made by an employer or a government agency to cover removal expenses and other costs incurred by an employee who is required to take up employment elsewhere
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • research library — a general or specialized library that collects materials for use in intensive research projects.
  • reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
  • residential care — the provision by a welfare agency of a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • residual current — an electric current that continues to flow in a device, etc when there is no voltage supply, due to electrons emitted by heat, etc
  • resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
  • resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
  • restricted class — a class of yachts that, although differing somewhat in design and rigging, are deemed able to race together because of conformity to certain standards.
  • restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
  • retail analytics — Retail analytics is any information that allows retailers to make smarter decisions and manage their businesses more effectively.
  • retrocessionaire — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.
  • rich tea biscuit — any of various semisweet biscuits
  • richard stallman — (person)   Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • ring the changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
  • risus sardonicus — fixed contraction of the facial muscles resulting in a peculiar distorted grin, caused esp by tetanus
  • river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
  • royal commission — (in Britain) a body set up by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister to gather information about the operation of existing laws or to investigate any social, educational, or other matter. The commission has prescribed terms of reference and reports to the government on how any change might be achieved
  • sabattier effect — the alteration of the image tones of a photographic print by briefly reexposing the negative after it has been partially developed.
  • sabbatical leave — a year or shorter period of absence for study, rest, or travel, given at intervals (orig. every seven years) as to some college teachers and now to people in other fields, at full or partial salary
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • sacrificial lamb — If you refer to someone as a sacrificial lamb, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group.
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • sado-masochistic — Something that is sado-masochistic is connected with the practice of sado-masochism.
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
  • saint catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
  • saint crispinian — Saint, See under Crispin, Saint.
  • sales commission — Sales commission is the percentage of the value of a sale that a sales associate or sales representative may earn.
  • sales resistance — the ability or inclination to refuse to buy a product, service, etc., offered.
  • same-day service — (humour, operating system)   An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
  • sandwich islands — the Hawaiian Islands
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • sauce americaine — a sauce prepared with tomatoes, garlic, wine, shallots, and herbs. See also à l’américaine.
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
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