15-letter words containing o, n, l, i, e, r
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
- reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- recreationalist — recreationist.
- reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- regionalization — the process or tendency of dividing a country into administrative regions
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- relational dbms — relational database
- relaxation time — the time that it takes for an exponentially decaying quantity, as radioactive particles or transient electrical currents, to decrease to 36.8 percent of its initial value.
- relieve oneself — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- renormalization — the action or process of normalizing or causing to conform to a norm or normal state again
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- retroperitoneal — of or relating to the area behind the abdominal lining, where organs such as the kidneys and bladder are located
- retroreflection — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- ricinoleic acid — a colorless to yellow, viscous, liquid, water-insoluble, unsaturated hydroxyl acid, C 1 8 H 3 4 O 3 , occurring in castor oil in the form of the glyceride: used chiefly in soaps and textile finishing.
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
- roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- rolled into one — If something is several things rolled into one, it combines the main features or qualities of those things.
- roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
- rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar