13-letter words containing c, a, l, e, r
- ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- re-accelerate — to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc., in: to accelerate economic growth.
- re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- re-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- reacclimatize — to acclimatize or become acclimatized again
- reaccumulated — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
- real presence — the doctrine that the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present in the Eucharist.
- realistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
- réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
- recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- recalcitrants — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- recalculation — recount, act of computing again
- recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
- recallability — the quality of being recallable
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- record dealer — a person who buys and sells vinyl records
- record player — phonograph.
- recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
- rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- rematriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- reminder call — an automated service which you can set up in advance to make a telephone call to you at a fixed time for the purpose of reminding you of something important
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.