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15-letter words containing t, e, n, c, a

  • recreationalist — recreationist.
  • recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
  • reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
  • refortification — the act or state of being refortified
  • reincorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • retained income — retained earnings.
  • retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
  • right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
  • round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • saint celestine — Saint (Pietro di Murrone or Morone) 1215–96, Italian ascetic: pope 1294.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
  • scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
  • scarlet tanager — an American tanager, Piranga olivacea, the male of which is bright red with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • scientific name — Latin term for sth
  • second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • self-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
  • self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
  • self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
  • self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-effacement — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
  • semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
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