14-letter words containing s, o, r, i, n, e
- reregistration — the act of registering.
- rescue mission — mission (def 16).
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resojet engine — a type of pulsejet engine that burns a continuous flow of fuel but delivers a pulsating thrust due to the resonance of shock waves traveling through it.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
- 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.
- 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.
- retaliationist — a retaliator
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
- 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.
- 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.
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- 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.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- rocket science — rocketry.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- rolling stones — the. British rock group (formed 1962): comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (born 1943; guitar, vocals), Brian Jones (1942–69; guitar), Charlie Watts (born 1941; drums), Bill Wyman (born 1936; bass guitar; now retired), and subsequently Mick Taylor (born 1948; guitar; with the group 1969–74) and Ron Wood (born 1947; guitar; with the group from 1975)
- rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- 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
- s-r connection — stimulus-response connection; the basic unit of learning according to behaviourist learning theory
- sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
- saint george's — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- san bernardino — a city in S California.
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- saone-et-loire — a department in E France. 3331 sq. mi. (8625 sq. km). Capital: Mâcon.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- 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
- schizo-phrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- schoolchildren — a child attending school.
- scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
- screen popping — (communications) The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.