15-letter words containing a, r, u, s, i
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- 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
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
- rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
- riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- rime suffisante — full rhyme.
- ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
- rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
- 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.
- russell's attic — (mathematics) An imaginary room containing countably many pairs of shoes (i.e. a pair for each natural number), and countably many pairs of socks. How many shoes are there? Answer: countably many (map the left shoes to even numbers and the right shoes to odd numbers, say). How many socks are there? Also countably many, we want to say, but we can't prove it without the Axiom of Choice, because in each pair, the socks are indistinguishable (there's no such thing as a left sock). Although for any single pair it is easy to select one, we cannot specify a general method for doing this.
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- 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.
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- sarraceniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sarraceniaceae, an American family of pitcher plants
- 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 cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
- scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
- securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
- security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- seleucia pieria — an ancient port in Syria, on the River Orontes: the port of Antioch, of military importance during the wars between the Ptolemies and Seleucids; largely destroyed by earthquake in 526; site of present-day Samandaǧ (Turkey)