16-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- residential care — the provision by a welfare agency of a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- residual current — an electric current that continues to flow in a device, etc when there is no voltage supply, due to electrons emitted by heat, etc
- resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
- resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
- responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- restoring spring — a spring so located that it returns a displaced part to its normal position.
- restricted class — a class of yachts that, although differing somewhat in design and rigging, are deemed able to race together because of conformity to certain standards.
- restricted stock — unregistered stock, as that issued privately as compensation to corporate executives subject to special conditions.
- restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
- restriction site — the place on a DNA molecule where a restriction enzyme acts.
- retail analytics — Retail analytics is any information that allows retailers to make smarter decisions and manage their businesses more effectively.
- retrocessionaire — a reinsurance company that accepts or takes a retrocession.
- returned soldier — a soldier who has served abroad
- rich tea biscuit — any of various semisweet biscuits
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
- ring the changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
- robert t. morris — The creator of the "Internet Worm" that wreaked havoc on many Internet systems for a day or two. Morris, the son of an NSA spook, did some jail time for releasing the worm.
- rocket scientist — a specialist in rocketry.
- roosevelt island — Formerly Welfare Island, Blackwells Island. an island in the East River, New York City: residential community. 1½ miles (2½ km) long.
- rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
- run-time support — run-time system
- russian roulette — a game of high risk in which each player in turn, using a revolver containing one bullet, spins the cylinder of the revolver, points the muzzle at the head, and pulls the trigger.
- sabattier effect — the alteration of the image tones of a photographic print by briefly reexposing the negative after it has been partially developed.
- saint catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
- saint peter port — a port and resort in the Channel Islands: the capital of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, on the E coast of the island of Guernsey. Pop: 28 310 (2001)
- saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
- saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
- saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- sales literature — all of the literature, such as brochures, price lists, and customer testimonials, that a company uses to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
- sales resistance — the ability or inclination to refuse to buy a product, service, etc., offered.
- sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
- santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
- saorstat eireann — Irish name of Irish Free State.
- saturated liquid — a liquid whose temperature and pressure are such that any decrease in pressure without change in temperature causes it to boil.
- saturation level — carrying capacity.
- sault ste. marie — the rapids of the St. Marys River, between NE Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
- scar tissue code — (humour, programming) Old code that is commented out but still included in the current release.
- scarlet clematis — a slightly woody vine, Clematis texensis, of Texas, having bluish-green leaves, plumed fruit, and solitary, urn-shaped, scarlet-to-pink flowers.
- schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
- school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
- schoolteacherish — showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.
- schweizerdeutsch — Schwyzertütsch.
- score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
- scottish borders — a council area in SE Scotland, on the English border: created in 1996, it has the same boundaries as the former Borders Region: it is mainly hilly, with agriculture (esp sheep farming) the chief economic activity. Administrative centre: Newtown St Boswells. Pop: 108 280 (2003 est). Area: 4734 sq km (1827 sq miles)
- scottish terrier — one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a wiry, steel-gray, brindled, black, sandy, or wheaten coat.