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13-letter words containing c, h, e, r

  • rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
  • 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.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • 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
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • receding chin — if somebody has a receding chin, it does not stick out and appears to slope backwards, giving the appearance of a weak jawline
  • record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • redondo beach — a city in SW California.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • reorchestrate — to orchestrate (a piece of music) again
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • resynchronize — to synchronize again
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rheoreceptors — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
  • richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • riviera beach — a town in SE Florida.
  • robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
  • rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
  • rubber cheque — a cheque that bounces
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
  • saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
  • saccharometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution, as by determining the specific gravity of the solution.
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