16-letter words containing n, o, c, e
- reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
- rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
- recapitalization — a revision of a corporation's capital structure by an exchange of securities.
- reception centre — A reception centre is a place where people who have no homes or are being looked after by the government can live until somewhere else is found for them to live.
- reclassification — categorization in a different way
- reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reconnection fee — an amount of money that a company charges customers in order to reconnect their supply of electricity, water, gas, or telephone after it has been stopped
- recording studio — place where music is recorded
- recreational sex — sex for the purpose of pleasure rather than reproduction, without the commitment of a relationship
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- recursion theory — (theory) The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
- redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- regional council — the governing body in certain countries of a particular region or administrative division
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
- rejection region — the set of values of a test statistic for which the null hypothesis is rejected.
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- relocation costs — payment made by an employer or a government agency to cover removal expenses and other costs incurred by an employee who is required to take up employment elsewhere
- replacement cost — fee to obtain new version of sth
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
- resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
- restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
- restriction site — the place on a DNA molecule where a restriction enzyme acts.
- retrocessionaire — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.
- revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
- rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.
- riccati equation — a differential equation, dy/dx + fy 2 + gy + h = 0, where f, g, and h are functions of x.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- rocket scientist — a specialist in rocketry.
- rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- round the corner — close at hand
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
- sales commission — Sales commission is the percentage of the value of a sale that a sales associate or sales representative may earn.
- sales conference — meeting of salespeople
- sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
- santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- save one's bacon — the back and sides of the hog, salted and dried or smoked, usually sliced thin and fried for food.
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
- school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
- schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.