17-letter words containing rr
- personnel carrier — a vehicle used for transporting troops
- poison-arrow frog — a small, bright-colored terrestrial frog of the family Dendrobatidae, of Central and South American rain forests, that secretes a virulent poison from its skin, once used on the tips of Indian hunting arrows.
- post-resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
- purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
- queensberry rules — the code of rules followed in modern boxing, requiring the use of padded gloves, rounds of three minutes, and restrictions on the types of blows allowed
- recoverable error — a program error that can be corrected and does not cause the program to fail or irretrievably lose data.
- recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
- resurrection fern — a drought-resistant, evergreen, epiphytic fern, Polypodium polypodioides, of subtropical to tropical America, appearing to be a ball of coiled, dead leaves in the dry season but reviving with moisture.
- same-sex marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- scrape the barrel — to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
- serendipity berry — miracle fruit (def 2).
- shutter-preferred — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- sleeper terrorist — a terrorist who is not currently active but assumes a guise in order to be in position, unsuspected, for future terrorist activities
- slings and arrows — Slings and arrows are unpleasant things that happen to you and that are not your fault.
- smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
- speech correction — the reeducation of speech habits that deviate from accepted speech standards.
- sperrin mountains — a mountain range in NW Northern Ireland
- squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
- strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
- strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
- super-terrestrial — pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth as distinct from other planets.
- superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
- surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
- tabernacle mirror — a mirror of c1800, having columns and a cornice, usually gilt, with a painted panel over the mirror.
- terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- territorial court — a court established in U.S. territories that is empowered to hear local and federal cases.
- terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
- the water carrier — the constellation Aquarius, the 11th sign of the zodiac
- torricellian tube — a vertical glass tube partly evacuated and partly filled with mercury, the height of which is used as a measure of atmospheric pressure
- transonic barrier — sound barrier.
- turbidity current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
- yorkshire terrier — one of an English breed of toy terriers having a long, silky, straight coat that is dark steel blue from the back of the skull to the tail and tan on the head, chest, and legs.