15-letter words containing d, o, a
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- re-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- reaccreditation — the act or process of reaccrediting something or someone
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- realized losses — Realized losses are losses which have occurred upon the sale of an asset.
- recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- red sandal wood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- redetermination — the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
- reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
- refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
- refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- relational dbms — relational database
- remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- retained income — retained earnings.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- ricinoleic acid — a colorless to yellow, viscous, liquid, water-insoluble, unsaturated hydroxyl acid, C 1 8 H 3 4 O 3 , occurring in castor oil in the form of the glyceride: used chiefly in soaps and textile finishing.
- ride for a fall — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- río de la plata — Rí·o de la [ree-aw th e lah] /ˈri ɔ ðɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA) an estuary on the SE coast of South America between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná rivers, about 185 miles (290 km) long.
- robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
- rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
- romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
- room-and-pillar — noting a means of extracting coal or other minerals from underground deposits by first cutting out rooms, then robbing the pillars between them; pillar-and-breast.
- root and branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- root-and-branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- rotary drilling — Rotary drilling is the use of a continuous circular motion of the drill bit to make a hole.
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.