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14-letter words containing u, r, a, s

  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
  • raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • rattail cactus — a small, often cultivated cactus (Aporocactus flagelliformis) with weak, cylindrical, creeping or drooping stems, native to Mexico and Central America
  • re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • re-measurement — the act of measuring.
  • read-only user — (jargon)   Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • reductase test — a test for the bacterial content in milk to determine its fitness for drinking.
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • respiritualize — to spiritualize again; reinvest with a spiritual character or meaning
  • restaurant car — dining car.
  • restauranteurs — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
  • resultant tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, either lower in pitch than either (differential tone) or higher (summational tone)
  • retroserrulate — having tiny retrorse teeth or barbs.
  • revenue stream — method of income
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • roman numerals — one of the numerals in the ancient Roman system of notation, still used for certain limited purposes, as in some pagination, dates on buildings, etc. The common basic symbols are I, (=1), V, (=5), X, (=10), L, (=50), C, (=100), D, (=500), and M, (=1000). The Roman numerals for one to nine are: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX. A bar over a letter multiplies it by 1000; thus, X̅ equals 10,000. Integers are written according to these two rules: If a letter is immediately followed by one of equal or lesser value, the two values are added; thus, XX equals 20, XV equals 15, VI equals 6. If a letter is immediately followed by one of greater value, the first is subtracted from the second; thus, IV equals 4, XL equals 40, CM equals 900. Examples: XLVII(=47), CXVI(=116), MCXX(=1120), MCMXIV(=1914). Roman numerals may be written in lowercase letters, though they appear more commonly in capitals.
  • rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
  • rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
  • rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
  • rough as sacks — uncouth
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
  • running casing — Running casing is the process of screwing together pieces of pipe on a rig floor and lowering them into a hole.
  • rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
  • russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
  • russia leather — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
  • russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
  • ryukyu islands — a chain of 55 islands in the W Pacific, extending almost 650 km (400 miles) from S Japan to N Taiwan: an ancient kingdom, under Chinese rule from the late 14th century, invaded by Japan in the early 17th century, under full Japanese sovereignty from 1879 to 1945, and US control from 1945 to 1972; now part of Japan again. They are subject to frequent typhoons. Chief town: Naha (on Okinawa). Pop: 1 318 220 (2000). Area: 2196 sq km (849 sq miles)
  • sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
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