15-letter words containing o, r, g, n, e
- receiving order — court order
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- red riding hood — fairytale character
- reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
- 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
- registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- reign of terror — a period of the French Revolution, from about March, 1793, to July, 1794, during which many persons were ruthlessly executed by the ruling faction.
- reinterrogation — a second or new interrogation or inquiry
- 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
- rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
- repeating group — (database) Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- 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
- right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
- right-of-center — holding conservative views in politics; right-wing.
- right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- roentgenoparent — visible by means of x-rays.
- roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
- 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
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
- running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
- sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
- scolding bridle — branks.
- scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.