14-letter words containing tr
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
- remonstrations — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remote control — control of the operation or performance of an apparatus from a distance, as the control of a guided missile by radio signals.
- reregistration — the act of registering.
- restrainedness — the state or quality of being restrained
- restricted epl — (language) (REPL) The efficient subset of EPL used to write the core of Multics.
- restrictionism — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
- restrictionist — a policy, especially by a national government or legislative body, of enacting restrictions on the amount of imported goods, immigration, etc.
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- retreaded tire — A retreaded tire is a used tire with a new tread fixed to it.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retrocognition — the paranormal ability or occurrence of seeing into the past
- retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
- retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
- retrogradation — backward movement.
- retroreflector — See under retroreflective.
- retroserrulate — having tiny retrorse teeth or barbs.
- revenue stream — method of income
- richard trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
- ripple control — the remote control of a switch by electrical impulses
- road transport — transport by road
- rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
- root treatment — a procedure, used for treating an abscess at the tip of the root of a tooth, in which the pulp is removed and a filling (root filling) inserted in the root canal
- rosario strait — a strait in the San Juan Islands, Washington, linking the Strait of Georgia and Juan de Fuca Strait. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
- rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
- salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
- 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.
- screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
- screw extruder — A screw extruder is a type of mixer which moves the components through a cylinder using a screw which turns.
- self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
- self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
- serratirostral — having a serrated beak or bill; sawbilled
- service stripe — a stripe worn on the left sleeve by an enlisted person to indicate a specific period of time served on active duty.
- shear strength — the degree to which a material or bond is able to resist shear
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- short trousers — knee-length trousers formerly worn by small boys
- shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
- silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.