14-letter words containing a, t, r, c, e
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- recharacterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
- recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- 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.
- record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- recrementitial — of, relating to, or consisting of recrement or waste matter
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- reductase test — a test for the bacterial content in milk to determine its fitness for drinking.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- 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.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- rehoboth beach — a town in SE Delaware: beach resort.
- reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- remittance man — a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.
- rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
- rent allowance — money given to individuals by the government that subsidises the cost of renting a property
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
- res adjudicata — res judicata.
- rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- respectabilize — to make respectable