12-letter words containing rie
- multistoried — Multi-storey.
- non-nutrient — nourishing; providing nourishment or nutriment.
- non-oriental — (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
- oriel window — a bay window, esp one that is supported by one or more brackets or corbels
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- orientations — Plural form of orientation.
- orienteering — a competitive sport, originating in Sweden, that tests the skills of map reading and cross-country running, in which competitors race through an unknown area to find various checkpoints by using only a compass and topographical map, the winner being the finisher with the lowest elapsed time.
- pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
- parietal eye — Zoology. a median outgrowth of the diencephalon anterior to the pineal apparatus, having visual adaptations in many anamniotes and lizards.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- power series — an infinite series in which the terms are coefficients times successive powers of a given variable, or times products of powers of two or more variables.
- prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
- prairie lily — sand lily.
- prairie rose — a climbing rose, Rosa setigera, of the central U.S., having pinkish to white flowers: the state flower of North Dakota.
- prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
- prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
- proprietress — a woman who owns a business establishment.
- puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
- quadriennial — quadrennial.
- quadriennium — quadrennium.
- reexperience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- retrievement — a retrieval
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- sarie marais — a popular Afrikaans song
- schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- series motor — A series motor is a direct current motor that has two windings that are in series, with the same current flowing through each.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- skye terrier — one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a dark or light blue-gray, gray, or fawn coat.
- spearcarrier — an extra in a theatrical or operatic production, as one of a group of soldiers or a member of a crowd
- stationeries — writing paper.
- supercarrier — a large aircraft carrier
- tapsalteerie — topsy-turvy.
- unbefriended — having no friends or companions
- unfriendlily — in an unfriendly manner
- unseminaried — not having a seminary education
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
- variety meat — edible meat other than the usual flesh, especially organs, as tongue and liver.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
- woman friend — a female friend
- world series — an annual series of games between the winning teams of the two major leagues: the first team to win four games being champions of the U.S.
- worried sick — extremely anxious about sb or sth
- youngberries — Plural form of youngberry.