15-letter words containing a, u, t, r, c
- pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
- pseudo-artistic — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
- quarter century — a period of twenty five years
- quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- quatercentenary — a 400th aniversary or its celebration.
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
- quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
- rat-tail cactus — a cactus, Aporocactus flagelliformis, of Mexico, having slim, cylindrical stems that are easily trained into strange designs, and crimson flowers.
- ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
- re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
- reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- 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.
- remuera tractor — a four-wheel drive vehicle
- reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- 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.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- 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.
- 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.
- samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
- 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.