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

  • reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
  • recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • reductase test — a test for the bacterial content in milk to determine its fitness for drinking.
  • reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
  • reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • rejuvenescence — becoming young again.
  • reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
  • rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • rescue mission — mission (def 16).
  • reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
  • reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • residence time — Also called residence. Chemistry. the length of time a substance remains in the adsorbed, suspended, or dissolved state.
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • restaurant car — dining car.
  • restricted epl — (language)   (REPL) The efficient subset of EPL used to write the core of Multics.
  • restrictionism — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
  • restrictionist — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
  • reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
  • reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
  • ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
  • ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
  • roller-coaster — to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves.
  • rorschach test — a test for revealing the underlying personality structure of an individual by the use of a standard series of 10 inkblot designs to which the subject responds by telling what image or emotion each design evokes.
  • ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
  • rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
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