13-letter words containing rr
- channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
- chaparral pea — a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers
- cherry brandy — a red liqueur made of brandy flavoured with cherries
- cherry laurel — a Eurasian rosaceous evergreen shrub, Prunus laurocerasus, having glossy aromatic leaves, white flowers, and purplish-black fruits
- cherry pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, having rounded, usually pungent fruit.
- cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
- cherry tomato — a miniature tomato not much bigger than a cherry
- cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
- co-curricular — related but only complementary to the official curriculum, as a civic or service activity outside the classroom.
- co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.
- concurrent ml — (language) (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter
- contraterrene — not terrestrial
- correlational — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- correlatively — so related that each implies or complements the other.
- correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- corresponsive — corresponding
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- corrigibility — The quality or state of being corrigible.
- corroborating — Present participle of corroborate.
- corroboration — the act of corroborating.
- corroborative — Corroborative evidence or information supports an idea, account, or argument.
- corroboratory — Serving to corroborate or strengthen.
- corrosibility — corrodibility
- corrosiveness — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- corruptionist — a person who engages in or upholds corrupt practices, esp. in public life
- counterreform — a reform which opposes or acts against another reform
- counterterror — designed to act against terrorism
- cranberry bog — a bog in which cranberry plants are cultivated.
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- cross-current — A cross-current is a current in a river or sea that flows across another current.
- crosscurrents — Plural form of crosscurrent.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- currency rate — the rate of exchange of a particular currency against another
- currency unit — a unit of money, such as the pound, dollar, or euro, that is used in a particular currency
- current ratio — A current ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets by current liabilities.
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
- daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- death warrant — A death warrant is an official document which orders that someone is to be executed as a punishment for a crime.
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable