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14-letter words containing c, e, r, a, s

  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
  • quasi-periodic — almost periodic
  • quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
  • rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • radio cassette — A radio cassette is a radio and a cassette player together in a single machine.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
  • raspberry cane — a long thin stalk on which raspberries grow
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
  • reconnaissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • reconnoissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • reconsecration — the act of consecrating; dedication to the service and worship of a deity.
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • reductase test — a test for the bacterial content in milk to determine its fitness for drinking.
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
  • rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
  • 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.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • restaurant car — dining car.
  • reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
  • reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
  • reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
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