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15-letter words containing a, i, r, s, g

  • reading glasses — spectacles
  • reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
  • registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • ribier (grapes) — a large, black variety of European or Californian table grape (Vitis vinifera)
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • risk management — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • rite de passage — rite of passage.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • rural sociology — the sociological study of life in rural areas and the effects of ruralization.
  • sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
  • saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
  • salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
  • scatter diagram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • segregationists — one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
  • self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-generating — producing from within itself.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
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