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

  • quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
  • quantum meruit — as much as he has earned: denoting a payment for goods or services in partial fulfilment of a contract or for those supplied when no price has been agreed
  • quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
  • questionmaster — quizmaster.
  • questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
  • re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
  • 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.
  • redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
  • refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
  • reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
  • 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.
  • revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
  • run-time error — (programming)   An error in the execution of a program which occurs at run time, as opposed to a compile-time error. A good programming language should, among other things, aim to replace run-time errors by compile-time errors. Language features such as strong typing help. A good program should attempt to avoid run-time errors by, for example, checking that their input data is sensible. Where this is not possible, the program should attempt to detect the error and handle it gracefully rather than just exiting via the language or operating system's default handler. Here again, a good language will make this easy to do (or at least possible). See also abort, core dump, GPF.
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
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