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15-letter words containing i, n, s, e, a

  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • 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
  • renaissance man — a cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields.
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • representations — statements of facts, true or alleged, esp set forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation
  • representatives — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • resensitization — the state or process of being sensitized.
  • 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 business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • 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
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • 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.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • 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.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • 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.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • rime suffisante — full rhyme.
  • risk assessment — the evaluation of the possible risks in a product,situation, activity or course of action
  • risk management — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • 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
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
  • rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
  • saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
  • saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • saint celestine — Saint (Pietro di Murrone or Morone) 1215–96, Italian ascetic: pope 1294.
  • saint elisabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
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