12-letter words containing t, i, g, r
- rejuvenating — making young again
- relitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- remote login — (networking) A client-server program and protocol that provides an interactivel command line interface to a remote computer, using a protocol over a computer network, simulating a locally attached terminal.
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- renegotiated — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- rent-seeking — the act or process of using one’s assets and resources to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth.
- repaginating — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repagination — Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.
- representing — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
- restrainings — acts of restraining
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retiringness — an awkward shyness
- retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
- retromingent — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- rib-tickling — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
- rigging loft — a loft or gallery in a boatbuilder's yard from which rigging can be fitted
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
- right-winger — If you think someone has views which are more right-wing than most other members of their party, you can say they are a right-winger.
- rights issue — Finance; offering of new shares to existing holders
- rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
- rigor mortis — the stiffening of the body after death.
- rim lighting — backlighting.
- ring circuit — an electrical system in which distribution points are connected to the main supply in a continuous closed circuit
- ring network — (networking, topology) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
- ringing tone — phone: sound indicating connection is made
- risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
- roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
- ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
- running knot — a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
- running text — the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.
- running time — Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film: The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner