14-letter words containing di
- radiosensitize — to make (cells) more sensitive to radiation
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- radiotelemeter — the equipment used for radiotelemetry
- radiotelemetry — the use of radio waves for transmitting information from a distant instrument to a device that indicates or records the measurements
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- radiotherapist — radiologist
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
- reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
- recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- redintegration — the act or process of redintegrating.
- redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
- redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistillation — further distillation; purification of liquid through many distillations
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.
- remedilessness — the state or quality of being remediless or incapable of being restored or corrected
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- res adjudicata — res judicata.
- retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
- rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
- ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
- riggs' disease — pyorrhea (def 2).
- rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
- root directory — (file system) The topmost node of a hierarchical file system.
- rounding error — an error introduced into a computation by the need to perform rounding
- royal canadian — in the service of the Canadian federal government and the British monarch: Royal Canadian Air Force; Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
- sailing dinghy — a small boat or dinghy with a single mast, used esp for recreational sailing
- saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
- sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
- san bernardino — a city in S California.
- satellite dish — dish (def 8).
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
- screen editing — the act or process of editing text on screen
- screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
- scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
- second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
- sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
- self-dedicated — wholly committed to something, as to an ideal, political cause, or personal goal: a dedicated artist.