0%

16-letter words containing a, u, n, i

  • question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
  • questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
  • quinquagenarians — Plural form of quinquagenarian.
  • quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
  • quintessentially — of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
  • radioimmunoassay — a test procedure that integrates immunologic and radiolabeling techniques to measure minute quantities of a substance, as a protein, hormone, or drug, in a given sample of body fluid or tissue.
  • radium emanation — (formerly) radon.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • rattle around in — to live or work in (a house, office, etc.) that is too big for one's needs
  • reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
  • regional council — the governing body in certain countries of a particular region or administrative division
  • regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
  • reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
  • relative minimum — minimum (def 5a).
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
  • republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
  • required reading — If you say that something is required reading for a particular group of people, you mean that you think it is essential for them to read it because it will give them information which they should have.
  • residual current — an electric current that continues to flow in a device, etc when there is no voltage supply, due to electrons emitted by heat, etc
  • resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
  • ribonucleic acid — RNA.
  • riccati equation — a differential equation, dy/dx + fy 2 + gy + h = 0, where f, g, and h are functions of x.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • risus sardonicus — fixed contraction of the facial muscles resulting in a peculiar distorted grin, caused esp by tetanus
  • romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • run rings around — a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
  • run-time library — (operating system, programming, library)   A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being included with each executable that refers to it. This can greatly reduce the disk space occupied by programs. Furthermore, it means that all programs immediately benefit from changes (e.g. bug fixes) to the single copy of the library without requiring recompilation. Since the library code is normally classified as read-only to the memory management system, it is possible for a single copy of the library to be loaded into memory and shared by all active programs, thus reducing RAM and virtual memory requirements and program load time.
  • russian dressing — a sharp mayonnaise dressing containing chopped pickles, chili sauce or ketchup, pimientos, etc.
  • russian orthodox — of or relating to the Russian Orthodox Church
  • russian roulette — a game of high risk in which each player in turn, using a revolver containing one bullet, spins the cylinder of the revolver, points the muzzle at the head, and pulls the trigger.
  • safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • sales automation — Sales Force Automation
  • san juan islands — a group of islands between NW Washington, US, and SE Vancouver Island, Canada: administratively part of Washington
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • saturation level — carrying capacity.
  • saturation point — the point at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution, chemical combination, etc.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?