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15-letter words containing n, a, c, r, e

  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
  • radio announcer — someone who broadcasts or presents radio programmes
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • radioprotection — protection against radiation
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • re-notification — a formal notifying or informing.
  • reaccreditation — the act or process of reaccrediting something or someone
  • reaction engine — an engine that produces power as a reaction to the momentum given to gases ejected from it, as a rocket or jet engine.
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
  • rear projection — the projection of filmed action or stills on a translucent screen in front of which actors are lit and filmed: used to simulate an outdoor or location background in the studio.
  • rear-projection — the projection of filmed action or stills on a translucent screen in front of which actors are lit and filmed: used to simulate an outdoor or location background in the studio.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • recertification — the act of certifying.
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconcentration — the act of concentrating again.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recontamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
  • recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • recreation area — public park
  • recreation room — (in a home or public building) a room for informal entertaining, as for dancing, games, cards, etc.
  • recreationalist — recreationist.
  • recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
  • reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
  • reference frame — frame of reference (def 2).
  • refortification — the act or state of being refortified
  • reincorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
  • remembrance day — (in Canada) November 11, observed as a legal holiday in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II, similar to Veterans Day in the U.S.
  • renaissance man — a cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields.
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • 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.
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