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17-letter words containing s, e, n, a

  • quarterback sneak — a play in which the quarterback charges into the middle of the line, usually immediately after receiving the ball from the center.
  • quasi-independent — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
  • quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
  • quasquicentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 125 years.
  • quatercentenaries — Plural form of quatercentenary.
  • queen anne's lace — a plant, Daucus carota, the wild form of the cultivated carrot, having broad umbels of white flowers.
  • racial harassment — persecution on the basis of race
  • rack one's brains — to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
  • radiant intensity — a measure of the amount of radiation emitted from a point expressed as the radiant flux per unit solid angle leaving this source
  • radio-transparent — transparent to radiation; invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiopaque).
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • rattle one's dags — to hurry up
  • raynaud's disease — a vascular disorder of unknown cause, characterized by recurrent episodes of blanching and numbness of the fingers and toes and sometimes the tip of the nose and ears, usually triggered by stress or exposure to cold.
  • real-estate agent — a person who sells houses, buildings, and land
  • received standard — the form of educated English spoken originally in southern England and having Received Pronunciation as a chief distinguishing feature.
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • recreationalist's — recreationist.
  • recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
  • rectangle slinger — polygon pusher
  • recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • reed canary grass — any of various grasses of the genus Phalaris, as P. canariensis, native to the Canary Islands, bearing seed used as food for cage birds, or P. arundinacea (reed canary grass) used throughout the Northern Hemisphere as fodder.
  • rehospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
  • renaissance woman — a woman who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field.
  • rescue operations — operations or organized procedures to bring people or a person out of danger, attack, harm, etc
  • respiratory chain — a series of mitochondrial proteins that transport electrons of hydrogen, released in the Krebs cycle, from acetyl coenzyme A to inhaled oxygen to form H 2 O: the energy released in the process is conserved as ATP.
  • restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
  • retained earnings — income not paid out as shares
  • retrocessionaires — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.
  • revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
  • rhodope mountains — a mountain range in SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula extending along the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Highest peak: Golyam Perelik (Bulgaria), 2191 m (7188 ft)
  • right parenthesis — (character)   ")". ASCII character 41. Common names: right paren; right parenthesis; right; close; thesis ("(" = paren); close paren; close parenthesis; right parenthesis; right banana. Rare: already ("(" = so); rparen; ITU-T: closing parenthesis; close round bracket, right round bracket, INTERCAL: wane ("(" = wax); unparenthisey ("(" = parenthisey); right ear. Paired with left parenthesis.
  • rio grande do sul — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • roseate spoonbill — a tropical New World spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja, having rose-colored plumage and a bare head.
  • rubber-base paint — latex paint.
  • rubberman disease — Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
  • russell, bertrand — Bertrand Russell
  • russian turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • sable island pony — a variety of wild pony found on Sable Island, Nova Scotia
  • sacred roman rota — rota1 (def 3).
  • sacrificial anode — Chemistry. an anode that is attached to a metal object subject to electrolysis and is decomposed instead of the object.
  • safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
  • safety inspection — an inspection of a place carried out to ensure that it is safe and not dangerous
  • safety precaution — a precaution that is taken in order to ensure that something is safe and not dangerous
  • saint agnes's eve — the night of January 20, superstitiously regarded as a time when a young woman who performs certain rites is likely to dream of her future husband.
  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • saint christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
  • saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • saint elmo's fire — corona discharge.
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