14-letter words starting with r
- re-embroidered — embellished with beads, tiny pearls, ribbon, etc. sewn on, usually by hand: said as of lace for bridal gowns
- re-engineering — to engineer anew: to reengineer a motor to make it more efficient.
- re-entry point — the designated place of return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere
- re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
- re-exploration — an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination.
- re-familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- re-measurement — the act of measuring.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- reacquaintance — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- read-only user — (jargon) Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
- reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
- ready-prepared — prepared in advance of use
- realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
- reamalgamation — the act or process of amalgamating.
- reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- reasonableness — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
- recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
- recency effect — the phenomenon that when people are asked to recall in any order the items on a list, those that come at the end of the list are more likely to be recalled than the others
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
- recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
- recharacterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
- recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- recommencement — an act or instance of commencing; beginning: the commencement of hostilities.
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.