13-letter words containing rc
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- merchant bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- merchant navy — commercial ships
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mercilessness — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
- mercurialness — Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality.
- mercurochrome — Merbromin.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- metacercariae — the encysted larva of a trematode, usually found in or on an aquatic intermediate host.
- metacercarial — relating to, involving, or caused by a metacercaria or metacercariae
- methylmercury — any of several extremely toxic organometallic compounds, Hg(CH 3) 2 , formed from metallic mercury by the action of microorganisms and capable of entering the food chain: used as seed disinfectants.
- microcircuits — Plural form of microcircuit.
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- mohr's circle — a graphical construction enabling the stresses in the cross-section of a body to be determined if the principal stresses are known
- monarchianism — any of several doctrines of the Christian church in the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d., emphasizing the unity of God by maintaining that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three manifestations or aspects of God.
- monarchically — In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.
- monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
- mother church — a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
- narcissistics — Plural form of narcissistic.
- narcoanalysis — a method of psychological investigation in which the conscious or unconscious unwillingness of a subject to express memories or feelings is diminished by the use of a barbiturate drug.
- narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
- narcotization — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- nez perce war — a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Percé Indians.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- nocturnal arc — the portion of the diurnal circle that is below the horizon of a given point.
- noncarcinogen — a substance or agent that is not carcinogenic or does not cause cancer
- nonchurchgoer — a person who does not attend church or who attends sporadically
- noncommercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- nonperceiving — Unperceiving.
- norc compiler — Early system on NORC machine. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- nuclear force — strong interaction
- orchard grass — a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
- orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- orchestrators — Plural form of orchestrator.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids