15-letter words containing d, t, l, r
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
- profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- property ladder — progress from cheaper to more expensive housing
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- pyramidal tract — any of four tracts of descending motor fibers that extend in pairs down each side of the spinal column and function in voluntary movement.
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
- radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radiator grille — a grille in an automobile or the like for air cooling of the liquid in the cooling system.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiometrically — using a radiometric method, in terms of radiometry
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- radiotelemetric — of or relating to radiotelemetry
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
- recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relational dbms — relational database
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- rent-controlled — regulated by law to control the rent a landlord can charge for domestic accommodation and to guarantee a landlord's right to evict tenants
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
- 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.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- 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.
- rolled into one — If something is several things rolled into one, it combines the main features or qualities of those things.
- rotary drilling — Rotary drilling is the use of a continuous circular motion of the drill bit to make a hole.
- rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.