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15-letter words containing e, a, s, o

  • recreationalist — recreationist.
  • 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.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
  • remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • 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.
  • representations — statements of facts, true or alleged, esp set forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation
  • research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
  • research worker — investigative scientist
  • resensitization — the state or process of being sensitized.
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
  • reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • rhyme or reason — If something happens or is done without rhyme or reason, there seems to be no logical reason for it to happen or be done.
  • right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
  • right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • 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).
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rogues' gallery — a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
  • roundheadedness — the state of having a round head
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests
  • royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
  • royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
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