14-letter words containing e, y, r
- referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- relay language — a language, usually an internationally dominant one, which acts as a medium to translate other usually little-spoken languages
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- rental library — lending library.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
- reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
- retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- return journey — the journey back from a destination
- revert to type — go back to one's usual behaviour
- rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
- rhyparographer — someone who paints rhyparographic pictures
- rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
- rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
- rna synthetase — an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA in cells infected with RNA viruses, allowing production of copies of the viral RNA.
- röntgenography — radiography
- root directory — (file system) The topmost node of a hierarchical file system.
- rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
- rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
- rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
- saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
- safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- safety feature — sth designed to prevent injury
- safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
- safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.