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14-letter words containing r, o, m, e

  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • radiotelemeter — the equipment used for radiotelemetry
  • radiotelemetry — the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements
  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • random testing — (programming, testing)   A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
  • re-accommodate — to do a kindness or a favor to; oblige: to accommodate a friend by helping him move to a new apartment.
  • re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • re-embroidered — embellished with beads, tiny pearls, ribbon, etc. sewn on, usually by hand: said as of lace for bridal gowns
  • re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • reamalgamation — the act or process of amalgamating.
  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • recommencement — an act or instance of commencing; beginning: the commencement of hostilities.
  • recommendation — an act of recommending.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • remonstrations — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remoralization — the act of instilling with morals again; the act of making moral again
  • remote control — control of the operation or performance of an apparatus from a distance, as the control of a guided missile by radio signals.
  • remote sensing — the science of gathering data on an object or area from a considerable distance, as with radar or infrared photography, to observe the earth or a heavenly body.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • rescue mission — mission (def 16).
  • reserve a room — If you reserve a room at a hotel, you keep it for a person who is going to arrive on an agreed date.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • restorationism — belief in a future life in which human beings will be restored to a state of perfection and happiness
  • restrictionism — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
  • 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.
  • rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
  • rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
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