12-letter words containing t, o, r, g
- regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
- reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- 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.
- repagination — Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.
- rephotograph — to photograph again
- report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
- repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retrocognate — being or pertaining to memory or extrasensory perception of past events.
- 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.
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- 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
- 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-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- rocket range — a firing range for rockets
- roentgen ray — (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.
- rogue trader — A rogue trader is an employee of a financial institution who carries out business without the knowledge or approval of his or her bosses.
- romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.
- 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
- 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.
- rush through — If you rush something through, you deal with it quickly so that it is ready in a shorter time than usual.
- rust-through — an act or instance of rusting: The body of the car is protected against rust-through.
- 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.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.