13-letter words containing c, r, o, e, s
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- puerto cortes — a seaport in NW Honduras.
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- pyrocellulose — cordite.
- queen consort — the wife of a ruling king.
- racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random-access — direct-access.
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- re-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reassociation — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
- recessionista — a person whose clothes, whether cheap, second-hand, or suitably subdued, are considered appropriate to an economic downturn
- recitationist — someone who gives recitations
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- 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
- recreationist — a person who advocates that national parks, seashores, lakes, etc., be preserved in their natural state for recreation, farming, or scientific study.
- rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
- red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
- red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- remote access — Remote access is a system which allows you to gain access to a particular computer or network using a separate computer.
- reorchestrate — to orchestrate (a piece of music) again
- repercussions — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
- reprographics — reprography.
- rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
- research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
- resource fork — Macintosh file system
- respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
- resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- retrospection — the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.