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15-letter words containing f, e, r

  • relief-printing — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
  • relieve oneself — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
  • religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
  • repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
  • reserve officer — a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
  • retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
  • retroreflection — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
  • retroreflective — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
  • revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • ride for a fall — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
  • 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.
  • right-of-center — holding conservative views in politics; right-wing.
  • right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • rime suffisante — full rhyme.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
  • rose of jericho — an Asian plant, Anastatica hierochuntica, of the mustard family, which, after drying and curling up, expands when moistened.
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • royal air force — aerial branch of British military
  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
  • rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
  • run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
  • rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
  • saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
  • samuel fb morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • sb of few words — A person of few words says very little, especially about their opinions or feelings.
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
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