14-letter words containing y, a
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
- recycled paper — paper made from recycled materials, esp waste paper
- red-lead putty — a compound for caulking pipe joints, made of red lead, white lead, and boiled linseed oil.
- red-letter day — A red-letter day is a day that you will always remember because something good happens to you then.
- redundancy pay — severance pay.
- referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- 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.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- relay language — a language, usually an internationally dominant one, which acts as a medium to translate other usually little-spoken languages
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- rental library — lending library.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
- retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- rhyparographer — someone who paints rhyparographic pictures
- rhyparographic — of or relating to rhyparography
- richard scarry — Richard McClure, 1919–94, U.S. author and illustrator of children's books.
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
- rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
- rna synthetase — an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA in cells infected with RNA viruses, allowing production of copies of the viral RNA.
- road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
- röntgenography — radiography
- rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
- 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.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- royal canadian — in the service of the Canadian federal government and the British monarch: Royal Canadian Air Force; Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- royal coachman — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
- royal standard — a flag bearing the arms of the British sovereign, flown only when she (or he) is present
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
- 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)