14-Letter Words Containing R

ENFORCEMENT The act of enforcing; compulsion.

ENGINEERING engineer

EQUILIBRIUM Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

EXPLANATORY Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. explanatory notes.

FLUORESCENT Having the property of fluorescence.

FORFEITABLE Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.

Nonforfeiture

""GEOMETRICAL Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.as, a geometrical solution of a problem.""

Plural noun (-ments)

""GRAMMATICAL Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule. as, a grammatical rule.""

""HYGROSCOPIC Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture. as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.""

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

""INFORMATION The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.""

INTERACTING interact

INTERACTIVE

""INTERCOURSE A <?/<?/mmingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion.""

Nonlinearity

Nonmembership

Nonmonetarist

""Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.""

Nonobservance

Nonoccurrence

Not working or in use

OVERLAPPING overlap

PARTICIPANT Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

Neglect or failure to perform.

Nonperishable

""PHILOSOPHER One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.""

POLARIZABLE Susceptible of polarization.

Nonprogrammer

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

""PROPRIETARY A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.""

PSYCHIATRIC Of or pertaining to psychiatria.

""RADIOACTIVE Capable of luminescence under the action of cathode rays, X rays, or any of the allied forms of radiation.""

Word with prefix non-

""RECOGNITION The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.""

Not produced by genetic recombination.

Plural noun (-tions)

Nonresidency

Type of property constructed in iron and steel

Nonresistance

Nonrespondent

""RESTRICTIVE Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.""

RETROACTIVE Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.

Nonreturnable

Plural or third person singular

""SEGREGATION The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.""

SPECTACULAR Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.

""SUPERVISORY Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers. as, supervisory powers.""

""SYMMETRICAL Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building. as, a symmetrical body or building.""

SYNCHRONOUS Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

""Inflected form of TERMINATING Inflected form of TERMINATE To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line. as, to terminate a surface by a line.""

""THEORETICAL Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.""

THERAPEUTIC One of the Therapeut\'91.

THREATENING threaten

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

""UTILITARIAN Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art. as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.""

Nonvegetarian

Noradrenaline

Real spelling of a real hormone (but didn't she direct Sleepless in Seattle?)

Norethindrone

Normalization

Northeastward

Northwestward

Nortriptyline

""Noteworthier , noteworthiest Deserving notice or attention; notable: a noteworthy advance in cancer research.""

Nucleoprotein

Numerousness

Nutritious

Obdurateness

Obstreperous

The act or the policy of obstructing progress.

Monkeywrench thrower

Exploded courts into bits, delaying legal process

Start of a quip

Oceanography

Oleomargarine

Plural or third person singular

""An infection with nematodes of the genus Onchocerca, especially Onchocerca volvulus. Untreated, such infections can cause serious dermatological problems, and in advanced cases may lead to blindness. In certain areas of tropical Africa the blindness caused by onchocerciasis is called river blindness.Onchocerca, especially Onchocerca volvulus. Untreated, such infections can cause serious dermatological problems, and in advanced cases may lead to blindness. In certain areas of tropical Africa the blindness caused by onchocerciasis is called river blindness.""

Oncornavirus

Oophorectomy

""The doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in defining, proving, or applying it.""

Of or pertaining to operationalism.

Opisthobranch

Oppressive

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of physics that deals with the interconversion of electricity and light.

A chorister's not involved in these arrangements

Harmoniously settled scores, making speeches about case, right (wordplay)

Ordinariness

ORGANISMIC

""Of or pertaining to organization; as, organizational structure.as, organizational structure.""

""Any of various hydrocarbon pesticides, such as DDT, that contain chlorine.""

Metalorganic.

Ornamentation

Ornithischian

Wrought iron, hot with reason like study of 19s, say

Hobbies are included in class that interests them

""Photography Of, relating to, or accurately reproducing the colors of the subject.""

ORTHOGONALIZE

Orthogonalize

""Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.""

""Of, relating to, or being a theory holding that mental diseases or abnormalities result from various chemical imbalances or deficiencies and can be cured by restoring proper levels of chemical substances, such as vitamins and minerals, in the body.""

Orthopedical

ORTHOPHOSPHATE

OSCILLOGRAPH a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating .

""Maintenance of an optimal, constant osmotic pressure in the body of a living organism.""

""Maintenance of an optimal, constant osmotic pressure in the body of a living organism.""

""A form of arthritis, occurring mainly in older persons, that is characterized by chronic degeneration of the cartilage of the joints. Also called degenerative joint disease .""

Rio atheists rot from joint complaint

Inflammation in which cartilages of the joints and adjacent bones are worn away

Big toe injured by Arthur, not Posh; it's causing bone disease

Pl. osteosarcomata (-m -t ) or osteosarcomas A malignant bone tumor. Also called osteogenic sarcoma .

Medical Specialties

Outmaneuver

Outrageous

OUTREPRODUCE

Outsiderness

Past tense or past participle

Past tense or past participle

Overabundance

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Overactivity

""ADJUSTMENT The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.""

ADVERTISED called to public attention.

Overadvertise

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

Breaking down to a fault

ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

ASSERTIONS assertion

""ASSESSMENT The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club. as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.""

Overattention

Overbreathing

Overcapacity

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Present participle or gerund

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

CLASSIFIED classify

Overclassify

""COMMITMENT The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison.""

COMMITTING commit

Go too far in trying to correct a fault

Make excessive corrections

""COMPLIANCE The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.""

COMPLICATE Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

Overcompress

Overcompress

Overconcern

Excessive self-assurance

An excess of self-assurance

Overconstruct

CONTROLLED control

Overcorrect

DECORATING decorate

""DECORATION The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.""

DEPENDENCE The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

DETERMINED Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe. determined foe.

Overdevelop

Overdiscount

Overdocument

Overdominance

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZED Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

Overdramatize

Overeducation

""Inflected form of ELABORATED Inflected form of ELABORATE Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.""

Overelaborate

Given excessive weight, very large map he stupidly put inside

Overemphasize

""ENCOURAGED made to feel more courage, hope, or optimism.""

Overencourage

Overengineer

Excessive enthusiasm.

Catching small boy in greedy behaviour, being highly judgmental (wordplay)

Second time I'm into greedy behaviour, being highly mistaken

The rating of something too highly

Excessive reckoning of value

Error of judgment that's highly inaccurate

EVALUATION Valuation; appraisement.

EXAGGERATE To heap up; to accumulate.

EXERCISING exercise

Overexpansion

Overexplain

Overexploit

Overextension

""EXTRACTION The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.""

""FASTIDIOUS Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.""

FERTILIZED united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

Overfertilize

Overfulfill

GENERALIZE To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

GENEROSITY Noble birth.

Overgenerous

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Overglamorize

Overharvest

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

IDEALIZING idealize

IDENTIFIED identify

Overidentify

Overimpress

Excess (in, eg, food or drink)

Genuine CD lover condemned excess

Extra fulfilment by consuming too much

Overinflation

""INVESTMENT The act of investing, or the state of being invested.""

Overlengthen

Overmaturity

MEDICATING medicate

MEDICATION The act or process of medicating.

Overnourish

Overnutrition

""OPTIMISTIC Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.""