14-letter words containing n, o, a, c, e
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
- recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
- recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- 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.
- record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
- record changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- record-changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
- recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- rent allowance — money given to individuals by the government that subsidises the cost of renting a property
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
- rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
- rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
- ride at anchor — to be anchored
- road allowance — land reserved by the government to be used for public roads
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
- roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
- 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.