14-letter words containing a, s, c, r
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
- reconnaissance — the act of reconnoitering.
- reconnoissance — the act of reconnoitering.
- reconsecration — the act of consecrating; dedication to the service and worship of a deity.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- 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.
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
- res adjudicata — res judicata.
- rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
- reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
- residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- restaurant car — dining car.
- reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
- reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
- reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- richard scarry — Richard McClure, 1919–94, U.S. author and illustrator of children's books.
- rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
- ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- roller-coaster — to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves.
- rorschach test — a test for revealing the underlying personality structure of an individual by the use of a standard series of 10 inkblot designs to which the subject responds by telling what image or emotion each design evokes.
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
- rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
- rough as sacks — uncouth
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- running casing — Running casing is the process of screwing together pieces of pipe on a rig floor and lowering them into a hole.
- rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
- russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- saccharic acid — a white, needlelike, crystalline, water-soluble solid or syrup, C 6 H 1 0 O 8 , usually made by the oxidation of cane sugar, glucose, or starch by nitric acid.