14-letter words containing c, a, r, n, i
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- remittance man — a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.
- residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
- rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- richard trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- ride at anchor — to be anchored
- rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
- ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
- rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- roman catholic — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
- rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
- rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
- royal canadian — in the service of the Canadian federal government and the British monarch: Royal Canadian Air Force; Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- running casing — Running casing is the process of screwing together pieces of pipe on a rig floor and lowering them into a hole.
- russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- san franciscan — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
- sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- santa catarina — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
- sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
- scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
- scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.