12-letter words containing race
- bathtub race — a sailing race between bathtubs fitted with outboard motors
- batter brace — a diagonal brace reinforcing one end of a truss.
- bicycle race — cycling (def 2).
- braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
- cichoraceous — relating to plants of the sub-order Cichoraceae
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- grace hopper — (person) US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
- grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- harness race — a trotting or pacing race for Standardbred horses harnessed to sulkies.
- memory trace — engram.
- paracenteses — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- picnic races — horse races for amateur riders held in rural areas
- produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
- race meeting — A race meeting is an occasion when a series of horse races are held at the same place, often during a period of several days.
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
- race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
- racemic acid — an isomeric modification of tartaric acid that is sometimes found in the juice of grapes in conjunction with the common dextrorotatory form and is optically inactive but can be separated into the two usual isomeric forms, dextrorotatory and levorotatory.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- roof terrace — a garden on the roof of a building
- saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
- scratch race — a race in which all contestants start on equal terms
- selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
- slalom racer — someone who takes part in a slalom
- thoracectomy — excision of part or all of a rib.
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- traceability — capable of being traced.
- ungracefully — in an ungraceful manner
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
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