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14-letter words containing a, r, d, e, c

  • recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
  • record changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
  • record-breaker — A record-breaker is someone or something that beats the previous best result in a sport or other activity.
  • record-changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
  • recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • recycled paper — paper made from recycled materials, esp waste paper
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • reductase test — a test for the bacterial content in milk to determine its fitness for drinking.
  • redundancy pay — severance pay.
  • reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
  • reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
  • rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • richard trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
  • ride at anchor — to be anchored
  • road allowance — land reserved by the government to be used for public roads
  • rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
  • roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
  • sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • secondary cell — storage cell.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
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