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14-letter words containing u, n, i, t, c, r

  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
  • quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
  • rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • reacquaintance — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • reconstitution — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
  • reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
  • reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • return receipt — a card bearing the signature of the recipient of registered postal matter, for return to the sender as proof of receipt.
  • ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
  • running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
  • scrutinization — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • scrutinizingly — in a scrutinizing manner
  • seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
  • selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
  • ski instructor — sb who teaches skiing
  • slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
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