15-letter words containing n, a, o, d, t
- 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.
- 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.
- redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- redetermination — the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.
- 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.
- refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
- relational dbms — relational database
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- retained income — retained earnings.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
- rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
- root and branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- root-and-branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rotary drilling — Rotary drilling is the use of a continuous circular motion of the drill bit to make a hole.
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- roundaboutation — circumlocution
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- saffron strands — the dried stigmas of the saffron, which are then crushed into powder to flavour or colour food
- san jacinto day — a legal holiday observed in Texas on April 21.
- sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- scala cordonata — a ramp having the form of broad, slightly inclined steps.
- scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
- second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
- short and sweet — having little length; not long.
- shorthand notes — notes written in shorthand
- sinistrodextral — moving or extending from the left to the right.
- sinoatrial node — a small mass of tissue in the right atrium functioning as pacemaker of the heart by giving rise to the electric impulses that initiate heart contractions.
- sistine madonna — a Madonna painted by Raphael for the Church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza, Italy.
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc