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14-letter words that end in re

  • simple measure — rhythm characterized by two or three beats or pulses to a measure.
  • social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • somar software — (company)   The distributors of Somar DumpAcl and other utilities for Windows NT. Address: Washington, DC, USA.
  • son et lumiere — sound-and-light show.
  • sound pressure — Also called excess sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure. the difference between the pressure at a point in a medium through which a sound wave is passing and the static pressure of the medium at that point.
  • south ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the S part of the historical county of Ayrshire; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Ayr. Pop: 111 580 (2003 est). Area: 1202 sq km (464 sq miles)
  • sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
  • sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
  • square measure — a system of units for the measurement of surfaces or areas.
  • standard score — the test score of a participant expressed as the deviation of the score from the mean score of the sample in units of standard deviation.
  • stream capture — piracy (def 3).
  • street theatre — dramatic entertainments performed esp in shopping precincts
  • struck measure — a measure, especially of grain, level with the top of a receptacle.
  • studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
  • super-pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • superstructure — the part of a building or construction entirely above its foundation or basement.
  • sweeping score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to the foot score and extending through the center of the tee.
  • take a picture — capture sb or sth on camera
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • ten-cent store — five-and-ten (def 1).
  • the heretofore — the past
  • then and there — at that time: Prices were lower then.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • tissue culture — the technique of cultivating living tissue in a prepared medium outside the body.
  • to return fire — If you return fire or you return someone's fire, you shoot back at someone who has shot at you.
  • total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
  • trench warfare — combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • turkey vulture — a blackish-brown vulture, Cathartes aura, from the southern U.S. to South America, having a bare, wrinkled, red head and neck.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
  • ultraminiature — subminiature.
  • ultrastructure — the structures of a cell that are revealed by electron microscopy.
  • under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • under-pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • understructure — a structure serving as a support; a base or foundation: The building has a strong understructure.
  • unit furniture — furniture consisting of separate units, conceived to be combined in different ways
  • ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
  • vapor pressure — the pressure exerted by the molecules of a vapor, especially that part of the total pressure exerted by vapor in a mixture of gases, as by water vapor in air.
  • water sapphire — a transparent variety of cordierite, found in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and elsewhere, sometimes used as a gem.
  • welfare centre — a place where people or animals receive assistance
  • wessex culture — an early Bronze Age culture of southern England, 1800–1400 b.c., known only from grave sites, grave goods, and megaliths and considered responsible for erecting the sarsen stones of the third building phase of Stonehenge.
  • west berkshire — a unitary authority in S England, in Berkshire. Pop: 144 200 (2003 est). Area: 705 sq km (272 sq miles)
  • west yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 787 sq. mi. (2039 sq. km).
  • western empire — the western portion of the Roman Empire after its division, a.d. 395, which became extinct a.d. 476.
  • white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
  • whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
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