15-letter words containing c, a, o, e, t
- rear-projection — the projection of filmed action or stills on a translucent screen in front of which actors are lit and filmed: used to simulate an outdoor or location background in the studio.
- reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
- recertification — the act of certifying.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- reconcentration — the act of concentrating again.
- reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recontamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
- recreation area — public park
- recreation room — (in a home or public building) a room for informal entertaining, as for dancing, games, cards, etc.
- recreationalist — recreationist.
- 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.
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- refortification — the act or state of being refortified
- reincorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
- remuera tractor — a four-wheel drive vehicle
- reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
- 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.
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
- retained income — retained earnings.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
- right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
- romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- 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)
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- sales associate — salesperson