14-letter words starting with r

rainbow darter — a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
rainbow runner — a streamlined, cigar-shaped swift jack, Elagatis bipinnulata, of warm seas, having a blue back, light-colored abdomen, and blue-bordered yellow stripes on its sides: a food and game fish.
rainbow series — (publication) Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover colour. The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see Orange Book, crayola books); the term has also been commonly applied to the PostScript reference set (see Red Book, Green Book, Blue Book, White Book). Which books are meant by ""the" rainbow series" unqualified is thus dependent on one's local technical culture.
rainbow wrasse — a brightly coloured Mediterranean fish ( Coris julis) of the Labridae family
rainbow-collar — being or of an employee who combines work or experience on the assembly line with more technical or administrative duties; having both blue-collar and white-collar duties or experience.
raise eyebrows — cause surprise
raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
ramshorn snail — any of various freshwater snails
ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
rancho cordova — a town in central California.
random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
random testing — (programming, testing) A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
rangatiratanga — the condition of being a Māori chief; sovereignty
rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
rank-and-filer — a member of the rank and file.
ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
raspberry cane — a long thin stalk on which raspberries grow
raspberry tart — a fruit tart made with raspberries
rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
raster blaster — (hardware, jargon) (Cambridge) Specialised hardware for bitblt operations (a blitter). Allegedly inspired by "Rasta Blasta", British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a "boom box" or "ghetto blaster".
rat-bite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
ratchet effect — intermittent growth, increase, expansion, or the like: the ratchet effect of defense expenditures.
rate collector — a person whose job it was to collect the rates
rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
rate of return — The rate of return on an investment is the amount of profit it makes, often shown as a percentage of the original investment.
rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
rational dress — long loose trousers gathered at the ankle and worn under a shorter skirt
rationalizable — capable of being rationalized
rationalized c — (language) (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
rattail cactus — a small, often cultivated cactus (Aporocactus flagelliformis) with weak, cylindrical, creeping or drooping stems, native to Mexico and Central America
rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
rawhide hammer — a hammer, used to avoid damaging a surface, having a head consisting of a metal tube from each end of which a tight roll of hide protrudes
razor-slashing — the action of slashing someone with a razor in order to kill, wound, or disfigure them
re-accommodate — to do a kindness or a favor to; oblige: to accommodate a friend by helping him move to a new apartment.
re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
re-choreograph — to produce new choreography for (a particular work or piece of music)
re-eligibility — the quality or state of being re-eligible
re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again

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