16-letter words containing c, o, n, a, r, e
- property company — a business that makes money by buying, selling, and renting out land and houses
- prosecution case — the case brought against someone by a legal authority
- protection ratio — the minimum acceptable ratio between the amplitudes of a wanted radio or television broadcast signal and any interfering signal
- protestant ethic — work ethic.
- proxima centauri — the nearest star to the sun at a distance of 4.3 light-years, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system located in the constellation Centaurus.
- pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
- public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
- purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- quantum computer — a computer that makes use of the quantum states of electrons or other particles to store and process information as quantum bits.
- rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
- radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
- radio-controlled — A radio-controlled device works by receiving radio signals which operate it.
- rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- re-accreditation — to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with): He was accredited with having said it.
- reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
- reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
- rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
- recapitalization — a revision of a corporation's capital structure by an exchange of securities.
- reclassification — categorization in a different way
- reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- recreational sex — sex for the purpose of pleasure rather than reproduction, without the commitment of a relationship
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- regional council — the governing body in certain countries of a particular region or administrative division
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- relocation costs — payment made by an employer or a government agency to cover removal expenses and other costs incurred by an employee who is required to take up employment elsewhere
- replacement cost — fee to obtain new version of sth
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
- resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
- restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
- retrocessionaire — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.
- rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.
- riccati equation — a differential equation, dy/dx + fy 2 + gy + h = 0, where f, g, and h are functions of x.
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- sales conference — meeting of salespeople
- sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- second world war — World War II.
- second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
- secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
- secondary cancer — a cancerous growth in some part of the body away from the site of the original tumour