15-letter words containing a, l, i, t, r
- psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pyramidal tract — any of four tracts of descending motor fibers that extend in pairs down each side of the spinal column and function in voluntary movement.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- racial minority — a group of a certain race that are in the minority compared to a larger group, the rest of the population, etc
- radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radiator grille — a grille in an automobile or the like for air cooling of the liquid in the cooling system.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiometrically — using a radiometric method, in terms of radiometry
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- radiotelemetric — of or relating to radiotelemetry
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- rat-tail cactus — a cactus, Aporocactus flagelliformis, of Mexico, having slim, cylindrical stems that are easily trained into strange designs, and crimson flowers.
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- rationalization — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- 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.
- reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
- rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
- recreationalist — recreationist.
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- regionalization — the process or tendency of dividing a country into administrative regions