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14-letter words containing r, e, s, d

  • residence time — Also called residence. Chemistry. the length of time a substance remains in the adsorbed, suspended, or dissolved state.
  • resident alien — an alien who has legally established residence in the U.S.
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • restrainedness — the state or quality of being restrained
  • restricted epl — (language)   (REPL) The efficient subset of EPL used to write the core of Multics.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
  • rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
  • riggs' disease — pyorrhea (def 2).
  • rise and shine — get out of bed
  • roanoke island — an island off the NE coast of North Carolina, S of Albemarle Sound: site of Raleigh's unsuccessful colonizing attempts 1585, 1587.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • rules of order — the rules by which a legislative or deliberative assembly governs its proceedings; parliamentary law.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
  • sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • saddle leather — hide, as from a cow or bull, that undergoes vegetable tanning and is used for saddlery.
  • sadler's wells — a theatre in London. It was renovated in 1931 by Lilian Bayliss and became the home of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company and the Sadler's Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet)
  • saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
  • salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
  • san bernardino — a city in S California.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • sand stargazer — a fish of the family Dactyloscopidae, especially Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, of Atlantic waters from Bermuda to Brazil, having tiny, tubular eyes on top of the head, and capable of emitting electric discharges.
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • saturated fats — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
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