15-letter words containing r
- (at) first hand — from the original source; directly
- (not) all there — (not) in full possession of one's wits; (not) mentally sound
- (one's) regrets — a polite expression of regret, as at declining an invitation
- (out) on strike — striking
- (upon) my word! — indeed! really!
- a cracking pace — If you say that someone or something is moving at a cracking pace, you mean that they are moving very quickly.
- a crock of gold — Gold is a valuable, yellow-colored metal that is used for making jewelry and ornaments, and as an international currency.
- a heart of gold — If you say that someone has a heart of gold, you are emphasizing that they are very good and kind to other people.
- a hornet's nest — If you say that someone has stirred up a hornet's nest, you mean that they have done something which has caused a lot of argument or trouble.
- a king's ransom — If you refer to a sum of money as a king's ransom, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
- a shingle short — unintelligent or mentally subnormal
- a small fortune — a very high price or cost
- a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
- a straight face — If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.
- ab urbe condita — from the founding of the city (Rome, about 753 b.c.). Abbreviation: A.U.C.
- ability to work — A policyholder's ability to work is the degree to which they are able to do a job, as a result of disability.
- abortion clinic — a place where abortions are conducted legally by doctors
- above the water — out of trouble or difficulty, esp financial trouble
- abraham lincoln — Abbey (Anna Marie Gaby Wooldridge; Aminata Moseka) born 1930, U.S. jazz singer, activist, and actress.
- abraham's bosom — the place where the just repose after death (Luke 16:22)
- absence seizure — petit mal.
- absorbabilities — Plural form of absorbability.
- absorption band — a dark band in the absorption spectrum of a substance, corresponding to a range of wavelengths for which the substance absorbs more strongly than at adjacent wavelengths.
- absorption edge — a discontinuity in the graph of the absorption coefficient of a substance plotted against the wavelength of x-rays being absorbed, representing the minimum energy necessary to free electrons from particular shells of the atoms of the substance.
- abstract number — a number that does not designate the quantity of any particular kind of thing.
- abstract syntax — (language, data) A form of representation of data that is independent of machine-oriented structures and encodings and also of the physical representation of the data. Abstract syntax is used to give a high-level description of programs being compiled or messages passing over a communications link. A compiler's internal representation of a program will typically be an abstract syntax tree. The abstract syntax specifies the tree's structure is specified in terms of categories such as "statement", "expression" and "identifier". This is independent of the source syntax (concrete syntax) of the language being compiled (though it will often be very similar). A parse tree is similar to an abstract syntax tree but it will typically also contain features such as parentheses which are syntactically significant but which are implicit in the structure of the abstract syntax tree.
- abundant number — a positive number that is less than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 12, which is less than the sum of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.
- accelerationist — a person, especially an economist, who advocates or promotes the acceleration principle.
- acceptance race — allowance race.
- accessible room — An accessible room is a room that is easy for disabled people to enter and leave.
- accessorization — to fit or equip with accessories: to accessorize a car with special seat covers.
- accessory fruit — a fruit having enlarged accessory structures in addition to those formed from the ovary, as the strawberry, in which the fleshy tissue is the enlarged receptacle and the true fruits are the small, dry achenes borne on its surface
- accessory nerve — either one of the eleventh pair of cranial nerves, which supply the muscles of the head, shoulders, larynx, and pharynx and the viscera of the abdomen and thorax
- accordion pleat — one of a series of narrow, evenly spaced parallel pleats with alternating raised and recessed folds set into cloth or other material, usually by a commercial pleating machine.
- account current — a record of business transactions that shows the total amount of money owed as of the date of the summarizing statement
- accrued alimony — an amount of alimony that has not been paid
- accrued charges — charges incurred in one accounting period that have not been paid by the end of it
- accrued expense — an expense incurred but not yet paid, as accrued interest on notes payable.
- acculturational — relating to acculturation
- acetyl chloride — a colourless pungent liquid used as an acetylating agent. Formula: CH3COCl
- acetylene torch — a piece of equipment that burns with a hot flame powered by acetylene and is used for welding, brazing, or soldering
- achilles reflex — ankle jerk.
- achlorophyllous — containing no chlorophyll.
- achromatic lens — a system of two or more lenses that is substantially free from chromatic aberration and in which the lenses are made of different substances so that the focal length of the system is the same for two or three wavelengths of light.
- achromatophilia — the property of having little or no affinity for stains.
- acid test ratio — a ratio of cash, receivables, and marketable securities to current liabilities, used in determining credit risks.
- acoustic guitar — an ordinary guitar, which produces its normal sound through the sounding board and is not amplified in any way
- acoustic screen — a fabric-covered, double-sided screen used in open areas such as offices to absorb noise
- acoustoelectric — electroacoustic.
- acrimoniousness — The quality of being resentful or cynical.
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