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14-letter words containing n, e, s, t, c

  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • 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 time — Also called residence. Chemistry. the length of time a substance remains in the adsorbed, suspended, or dissolved state.
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • restaurant car — dining car.
  • restrictionism — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
  • restrictionist — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
  • rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
  • s-r connection — stimulus-response connection; the basic unit of learning according to behaviourist learning theory
  • 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 lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • sanctus turret — a bell cote holding a Sanctus bell.
  • sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • scaly anteater — pangolin.
  • scarlet runner — a twining, South American bean plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having clusters of scarlet flowers.
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
  • schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • schottky noise — shot effect.
  • scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
  • sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
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