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13-letter words containing r, e, c, t, i, s

  • reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
  • recreationist — a person who advocates that national parks, seashores, lakes, etc., be preserved in their natural state for recreation, farming, or scientific study.
  • recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
  • rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
  • redescription — the act of redescribing
  • redistricting — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
  • resectability — the state of being resectable
  • respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
  • resting place — grave
  • restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
  • restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
  • retrospection — the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
  • retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
  • rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
  • saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
  • sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
  • sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • scan register — (electronics, testing)   A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
  • scare tactics — tactics designed to cause fear or alarm
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
  • scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
  • sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
  • scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
  • sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scottish rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the 33rd degree.
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
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