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15-letter words starting with r

  • reprivatization — the action or process of reprivatizing, or an instance thereof
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • required course — an obligatory course for all students
  • rescue services — emergency services comprising employees, equipment, etc, which serve to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
  • research worker — investigative scientist
  • resensitization — the state or process of being sensitized.
  • reserve officer — a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • reserved memory — (storage)   The address range 640-1024 kilobytes on an IBM PC, reserved for BIOS, video cards, and add-on cards. Depending on the configuration some of the address space may be unused in which case it can be used by EMS or UMB.
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
  • resist printing — a fabric-printing method in which a dye-resistant substance is applied to certain specified areas of the material prior to immersion in a dye bath and subsequently removed so as to permit the original hue to act as a pattern against the colored ground.
  • resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • restless spirit — a wandering spirit
  • restricted area — out of bounds to military personnel
  • restricted code — a style of language use associated with informal situations, characterized by linguistic predictability and by its dependence on the external context and on the shared knowledge and experience of the participants for conveying meaning. Compare code (def 11b), elaborated code.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • resurrectionist — a person who brings something to life or view again.
  • resurrectionize — to bring back from or raise from the dead
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
  • retained income — retained earnings.
  • retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
  • retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
  • retirement home — care facility for elderly people
  • retirement plan — a systematic plan made and kept by an individual for setting aside income for his or her future retirement.
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • retro-operative — affecting or operating on past events; retroactive
  • retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
  • retroperitoneal — of or relating to the area behind the abdominal lining, where organs such as the kidneys and bladder are located
  • retroreflection — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
  • retroreflective — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
  • retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
  • reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
  • reverse osmosis — the process in which pure water is produced by forcing waste or saline water through a semipermeable membrane.
  • reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
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