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16-letter words containing d, r, e, g

  • ranelagh gardens — a public garden in Chelsea opened in 1742: a centre for members of fashionable society to meet and promenade. The gardens were closed in 1804
  • reading material — any matter that can be read; written or printed text
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
  • recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • red-necked grebe — a large stocky grebe, Podiceps grisegena, of circumpolar regions having a dark neck: family Podicipedidae
  • refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
  • regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
  • register dancing — Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers. This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation. Some designs with this problem, like the Intel 80x86, do have a handful of special-purpose registers that can be pressed into service, providing suitable care is taken to avoid unpleasant side effects on the state of the processor: while the special-purpose register is being used to hold an intermediate value, a delicate minuet is required in which the previous value of the register is saved and then restored just before the official function (and value) of the special-purpose register is again needed.
  • registered nurse — a graduate nurse who has passed a state board examination and been registered and licensed to practice nursing. Abbreviation: R.N.
  • registered share — a stock registered to the owner's name
  • religious leader — head of a church or order
  • remedial reading — instruction in reading aimed at increasing speed and comprehension by correcting poor reading habits.
  • required reading — If you say that something is required reading for a particular group of people, you mean that you think it is essential for them to read it because it will give them information which they should have.
  • revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
  • ring-billed gull — a North American gull, Larus delawarensis, having a black ring around the bill.
  • ring-necked duck — a North American scauplike duck, Aythya collaris, having a chestnut ring around the neck.
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • room methodology — Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • russian dressing — a sharp mayonnaise dressing containing chopped pickles, chili sauce or ketchup, pimientos, etc.
  • safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
  • 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).
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • spreading center — a linear zone in the sea floor along which magma rises and from which adjacent crustal plates are moving apart.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
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