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16-letter words containing o, n, e, i, r

  • regional ileitis — a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes scarring and thickening of the intestinal walls and frequently leads to obstruction.
  • regional network — mid-level network
  • register tonnage — the volume of a vessel, especially the net tonnage as measured officially and registered for purposes of taxation.
  • registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
  • regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
  • 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)
  • reinterpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • rejection region — the set of values of a test statistic for which the null hypothesis is rejected.
  • relational model — relational data model
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • released version — release
  • 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
  • remilitarization — the act of re-arming a country or territory that has previously been disarmed
  • remineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
  • 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.
  • repossession man — someone employed to take back or repossess property, esp due to nonpayment of money due under a hire-purchase agreement
  • representational — of or relating to representation.
  • repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • reprioritization — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
  • reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
  • responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • restoring spring — a spring so located that it returns a displaced part to its normal position.
  • 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.
  • return on equity — the amount of profit computed by dividing net income before taxes less preferred dividends by the value of stockholders' equity, usually expressed as a percentage. Abbreviation: ROE.
  • returned soldier — a soldier who has served abroad
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • rhode island red — one of an American breed of chickens having dark reddish-brown feathers and producing brown eggs.
  • 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.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • right outer join — outer join
  • rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • rocket scientist — a specialist in rocketry.
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • rodent operative — a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
  • romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
  • roosevelt island — Formerly Welfare Island, Blackwells Island. an island in the East River, New York City: residential community. 1½ miles (2½ km) long.
  • rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
  • round the wrekin — the long way round
  • rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
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