14-letter words containing n, a, s, c
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
- reconnaissance — the act of reconnoitering.
- reconnoissance — the act of reconnoitering.
- reconsecration — the act of consecrating; dedication to the service and worship of a deity.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
- residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- restaurant car — dining car.
- ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
- rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- running casing — Running casing is the process of screwing together pieces of pipe on a rig floor and lowering them into a hole.
- russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sachsen-anhalt — German name of Saxony-Anhalt.
- 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.
- sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
- sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- salade niçoise — a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
- sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- san franciscan — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
- san jose scale — a scale insect, Aspidiotus perniciosus, that is highly destructive to fruit trees and shrubs throughout the U.S.
- sanctification — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament