14-letter words containing r, e, t, o, u
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- reconstitution — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- regulator gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- resultant tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, either lower in pitch than either (differential tone) or higher (summational tone)
- retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
- retroserrulate — having tiny retrorse teeth or barbs.
- return journey — the journey back from a destination
- return to zero — (communications) A class of encoding methods for physical circuits in which the carrier (current, voltage) returns to zero after each transmitted bit, i.e. the data is carried in pulse width or polarity, not in the level of the signal. Contrast NRZ.
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
- rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
- rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
- rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
- roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
- roulette wheel — spinning part of roulette table
- round the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- route flapping — flapping router
- rule the roost — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- run counter to — to have a contrary effect or action to
- run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
- run-time error — (programming) An error in the execution of a program which occurs at run time, as opposed to a compile-time error. A good programming language should, among other things, aim to replace run-time errors by compile-time errors. Language features such as strong typing help. A good program should attempt to avoid run-time errors by, for example, checking that their input data is sensible. Where this is not possible, the program should attempt to detect the error and handle it gracefully rather than just exiting via the language or operating system's default handler. Here again, a good language will make this easy to do (or at least possible). See also abort, core dump, GPF.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- sale or return — an arrangement by which a retailer pays only for goods sold, returning those that are unsold to the wholesaler or manufacturer
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- scrape through — only just succeed