14-letter words containing rc
- porcelain ware — articles made of porcelain, such as plates and cups
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
- purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
- quality circle — a group of workers performing similar duties who meet periodically to discuss work-related problems, offer suggestions for improved production or product quality, etc.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
- safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
- sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
- sconcheon arch — an archway that includes the sconcheons of a door or window.
- scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
- scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
- search warrant — a court order authorizing the examination of a dwelling or other private premises by police officials, as for stolen goods.
- segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
- self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- semicommercial — of, relating to, or characterized by limited marketing of an experimental product
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- sleeping porch — a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
- soldier orchid — a European orchid, Orchis militaris, having pale purple flowers with a four-lobed lower lip
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
- special forces — crack military team
- speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
- spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
- squared circle — a wrestling ring
- starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
- starch-reduced — (of food, esp bread) having the starch content reduced, as in proprietary slimming products
- station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
- stercoricolous — (of an organism) living in dung
- sterculiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sterculiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of plants that includes cacao and cola
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- supercelestial — located above the heavens; above the heavens or celestial regions
- superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
- superconductor — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- supercontinent — a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
- tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
- tender mercies — discretion or compassion
- the archeozoic — the Archean (see phrase under Archean)