14-letter words containing e, y, r
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- quality circle — a group of workers performing similar duties who meet periodically to discuss work-related problems, offer suggestions for improved production or product quality, etc.
- quality-assure — to ensure the quality of: Measures are in place to quality-assure our data.
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
- querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
- query language — the instructions and procedures used to retrieve information from a database
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
- radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
- radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- radiotelemetry — the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
- rafferty rules — no rules at all
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- railway engine — a self-propelled engine used for drawing or pushing trains along railway tracks; locomotive
- railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
- railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
- railway worker — railroad employee
- raise eyebrows — cause surprise
- rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
- raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
- raspberry cane — a long thin stalk on which raspberries grow
- raspberry tart — a fruit tart made with raspberries
- re-eligibility — the quality or state of being re-eligible
- re-entry point — the designated place of return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere
- read-only user — (jargon) Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
- ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
- ready-prepared — prepared in advance of use
- recency effect — the phenomenon that when people are asked to recall in any order the items on a list, those that come at the end of the list are more likely to be recalled than the others
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
- recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
- recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
- recycled paper — paper made from recycled materials, esp waste paper
- red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- red-eyed vireo — an American vireo, Vireo olivaceus, having olive-green and white plumage and red irises.
- red-lead putty — a compound for caulking pipe joints, made of red lead, white lead, and boiled linseed oil.
- red-letter day — A red-letter day is a day that you will always remember because something good happens to you then.
- redundancy pay — severance pay.