14-letter words containing l, a, t, e, r
- 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.
- retroserrulate — having tiny retrorse teeth or barbs.
- reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
- ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
- rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
- roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
- roller-coaster — to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- route flapping — flapping router
- rufflette tape — a kind of heading tape for curtains
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- russia leather — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- saddle leather — hide, as from a cow or bull, that undergoes vegetable tanning and is used for saddlery.
- saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- sale or return — an arrangement by which a retailer pays only for goods sold, returning those that are unsold to the wholesaler or manufacturer
- sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
- sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
- sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
- salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
- salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
- salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- saone-et-loire — a department in E France. 3331 sq. mi. (8625 sq. km). Capital: Mâcon.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scaly anteater — pangolin.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- scarlet letter — a novel (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- scarlet runner — a twining, South American bean plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having clusters of scarlet flowers.
- scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.