14-letter words containing rr
- cash-and-carry — A cash-and-carry is a large shop where you can buy goods in larger quantities and at lower prices than in ordinary shops. Cash-and-carries are mainly used by people in business to buy goods for their shops or companies.
- catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
- cerro de pasco — a town in central Peru, in the Andes: one of the highest towns in the world, 4400 m (14 436 ft) above sea level; mining centre. Pop: 70 000 (latest est)
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- chaparral bird — roadrunner.
- chaparral cock — roadrunner
- chaparral lily — a lily, Lilium rubescens, of the western coast of the U.S., having pale lilac-colored flowers that turn rose-purple.
- charge carrier — an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current
- checkerberries — Plural form of checkerberry.
- cherry blossom — the blossom of any of various spring-blooming cherries, prized for their beauty
- cherry orchard — an orchard planted in cherry trees
- cherry-picking — to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- cimarron-river — a river flowing E from NE New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- circular error — Horology. loss of isochronism in a pendulum moving through circular arcs of different sizes: sometimes avoided by causing the pendulum to move through cycloidal arcs.
- civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
- claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
- colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
- common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
- computer error — an error attributed to the action of a computer
- concurrent clu — (language) A programming language extending CLU for concurrent processes, developed by by Hamilton in 1984.
- correctability — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- correspondence — Correspondence is the act of writing letters to someone.
- correspondency — correspondence
- correspondents — Plural form of correspondent.
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
- countercurrent — a current flowing in an opposite direction to another current
- cracker-barrel — rural; rustic; homespun
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- cranberry tree — highbush cranberry.
- cryptocurrency — a decentralized digital medium of exchange which is created, regulated, and exchanged using cryptography and (usually) open source software
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
- currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
- current assets — Current assets are assets which a company does not use on a continuous basis, such as stocks and debts, but which can be converted into cash within one year.
- current rating — Current rating is the maximum current that a fuse will carry for an indefinite period without too much deterioration of the fuse element.
- current source — A current source is a source that maintains the current at a particular value almost independent of the load conditions.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- deferred share — a share of stock on which a dividend is not paid until some fixed date or until some conditional event.
- dessert cherry — the fruit of a cherry tree
- direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- disembarrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of disembarrass.
- disk mirroring — (hardware, storage) Use of one or more mirrors of a hard disk.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- driving mirror — (in a vehicle) the rear-view mirror
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.