14-letter words containing ru
- reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- retroserrulate — having tiny retrorse teeth or barbs.
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
- rufflette tape — a kind of heading tape for curtains
- ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
- rule of eleven — the rule that when a player leads his or her fourth-highest card in any suit its numerical value subtracted from eleven gives the number of higher cards of that suit held by the other players.
- rule the roost — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rules of order — the rules by which a legislative or deliberative assembly governs its proceedings; parliamentary law.
- rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- run counter to — to have a contrary effect or action to
- run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
- run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- run-time error — (programming) An error in the execution of a program which occurs at run time, as opposed to a compile-time error. A good programming language should, among other things, aim to replace run-time errors by compile-time errors. Language features such as strong typing help. A good program should attempt to avoid run-time errors by, for example, checking that their input data is sensible. Where this is not possible, the program should attempt to detect the error and handle it gracefully rather than just exiting via the language or operating system's default handler. Here again, a good language will make this easy to do (or at least possible). See also abort, core dump, GPF.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- running casing — Running casing is the process of screwing together pieces of pipe on a rig floor and lowering them into a hole.
- running lights — the lights that a ship or aircraft traveling at night is required to display
- running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
- running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
- rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
- russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
- russia leather — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
- russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
- russian empire — Russia (def 1).
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- scarlet runner — a twining, South American bean plant, Phaseolus coccineus, having clusters of scarlet flowers.
- scissors truss — a roof truss having tension members extending from the foot of each principal rafter to a point on the upper half of its opposite member.
- screw extruder — A screw extruder is a type of mixer which moves the components through a cylinder using a screw which turns.
- scrutinization — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinizingly — in a scrutinizing manner
- seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
- selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
- seniority rule — the custom in Congress providing for the assignment of a committee chairpersonship to that member of the majority party who has served on the committee the longest.
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- serum sickness — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
- shulchan aruch — the main codification of Jewish law derived from the Talmud, compiled by the 16th-century rabbi, Joseph Caro
- simpson's rule — a method for approximating the value of a definite integral by approximating, with parabolic arcs, the area under the curve defined by the integrand.
- ski instructor — sb who teaches skiing
- smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
- spark spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric spark, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the spark passes.
- spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.