14-letter words starting with r
- remote sensing — the science of gathering data on an object or area from a considerable distance, as with radar or infrared photography, to observe the earth or a heavenly body.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- rene descartes — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.
- rent allowance — money given to individuals by the government that subsidises the cost of renting a property
- rent collector — a person who goes from house to house collecting rental payments for the owner of those houses
- rental library — lending library.
- reorganization — the act or process of reorganizing; state of being reorganized.
- repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
- repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- representation — the act of representing.
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
- repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
- reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
- reregistration — the act of registering.
- res adjudicata — res judicata.
- rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
- rescue mission — mission (def 16).
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reserve a room — If you reserve a room at a hotel, you keep it for a person who is going to arrive on an agreed date.
- reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
- reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
- reserved power — a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
- reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
- residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
- residence time — Also called residence. Chemistry. the length of time a substance remains in the adsorbed, suspended, or dissolved state.
- resident alien — an alien who has legally established residence in the U.S.
- residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resistlessness — the quality or condition of being resistless or unresisting
- resojet engine — a type of pulsejet engine that burns a continuous flow of fuel but delivers a pulsating thrust due to the resonance of shock waves traveling through it.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- respiritualize — to spiritualize again; reinvest with a spiritual character or meaning
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
- rest of esther — a book of the Old Testament Apocrypha consisting of verses in the Septuagint text of the book of Esther that are not in the Hebrew text
- restaurant car — dining car.