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15-letter words containing res

  • responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • restless spirit — a wandering spirit
  • restricted area — out of bounds to military personnel
  • restricted code — a style of language use associated with informal situations, characterized by linguistic predictability and by its dependence on the external context and on the shared knowledge and experience of the participants for conveying meaning. Compare code (def 11b), elaborated code.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • resurrectionist — a person who brings something to life or view again.
  • resurrectionize — to bring back from or raise from the dead
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • sartor resartus — a satirical work (1833–34) by Carlyle.
  • self-expression — the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
  • self-expressive — the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
  • self-interested — If you describe someone as self-interested, you disapprove of them because they always want to do what is best for themselves rather than for other people.
  • self-oppression — the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.
  • self-prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
  • self-resentment — the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult.
  • self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
  • self-restricted — confined; limited.
  • semiterrestrial — living mostly on land but requiring a moist environment or nearby water, especially as a breeding site: Most amphibians are semiterrestrial.
  • sentence stress — the stress pattern or patterns associated with words as arranged in sentences in a particular language.
  • shearing stress — a force causing two contacting parts or layers to slide upon each other, in opposite directions parallel to the plane of their contact
  • shearing-stress — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • shemini atseres — the festival which follows upon Sukkoth on Tishri 22 (and 23 outside Israel), and includes Simchat Torah
  • sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
  • shock resistant — not affected by impact
  • shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
  • simple interest — interest payable only on the principal; interest that is not compounded.
  • sinorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the paranasal sinuses and the respiratory tract.
  • spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • stain resistant — (of a fabric, carpet, surface, etc) designed or having added chemicals in order to be resistant to being stained or marked
  • static pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid that is not moving or flowing.
  • stress fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
  • stress position — an enforced body position, applied esp in the interrogation of detainees, which causes the victim pain by concentrating a large amount of his or her weight on a small number of muscles, joints, etc
  • suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
  • suppressiveness — the quality of being suppressive
  • suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
  • synthetic resin — any of a large class of complex organic liquids or solids formed from simpler molecules by condensation or polymerization, used esp. in making plastics
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • transgressional — of or relating to transgression
  • turgor pressure — the pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell by osmosis
  • ultimate-stress — the quantity of the utmost tensile, compressive, or shearing stress that a given unit area of a certain material is expected to bear without failing.
  • un-presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
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