15-Letter Words Containing R

Absorbability

Abstractionism

Painters like Rothko and Pollock

Pollock and Kline, for example

ACCULTURATION

Achondroplasia

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

Adenocarcinoma

Groups of men entrusted with executive powers

Government executives and their policies.

ADMIRABLENESS The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

Adrenalectomy

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

Adversariness

Aerodynamical

Aerodynamicist

Aerosolization

Affordability

Aggrandizement

AGGREGATENESS aggregate

AGRANULOCYTE

AGRANULOCYTE

AGREEABLENESS The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.

English word

AGRIBUSINESS

One in the business of cultivating soil

Rural guilt I cast off as a farmer

Farm expert

Airworthiness

ALGORITHMIC of or pertaining to an algorithm.

Quality of figurative writing

Allegorization

Allelomorphism

Allergenicity

Allotetraploid

ALLOTETRAPLOID

""The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.""

Some presidential appointments

Overseas appointments

Diplomatic jobs

Ambidexterity

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

""Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.""

""ANAGRAMMATIZE To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.""

Anfractuosity

""ANISOTROPIC Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Seeing man as focus of the universe

Regarding humans as all-important

Revolving around mankind

Like Mead's field

Man's in pathetic poncho, wrestling with alligator

Mead et al.

Margaret Mead's colleagues

Anthropometry

Described in a human form

Having a human form

Treating nonhuman beings as humans

Cruel seas, for example

"Cruel seas," for example

Anthropophagy

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Anthroposophy

A person who is opposed to legal voluntary abortion.

Word with prefix anti-

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticarcinogen

CHOLESTEROL

Inflected form of CHOLINERGIC Inflected form of CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

Being opposed to any priest or saint I call 'crime' ridiculously

Plural noun (-tions)

Mame's corsets

Mood-enhancing drugs

Psychiatrist's arsenal

Plural noun (-sions)

Antiderivative

EGALITARIAN

FERROMAGNET

FORECLOSURE The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Antiliberalism

""LIBERTARIAN Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.""

MATERIALISM The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

""MATERIALIST One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.""

Antimilitarism

Antimilitarist

Committing no criminal act. Ah, to be a republican!

Antimonarchist

Sure things (wordplay)

They're put on for a dry run

*Sure and more

""PORNOGRAPHY Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""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.""

Antiquarianism

Antiradicalism

""RATIONALISM The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.""

Reason as a source of knowledge opp.

RATIONALITY The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

""ROMANTICISM A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi<?/val forms and methods in opposition to the socalled classical style.""

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

Antiseparatist

Plural noun (-sions)

""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.""

""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.""

""TUBERCULOUS Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.""

Apolipoprotein

Train times (wordplay)

Potential artisans in dentures!

In which tradesmen learn joints

Tour golfer's need (wordplay)

Asset for social people

Open quality: skill at getting ball on green (wordplay)

Rightness or relevance

Felicity to commandeer promontory

Suitability

Arbitrariness

Pl. archaebacteria An archaeon.

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Architectural

It makes my great-aunt evil in a quarrelsome way

Plural or third person singular

""A condition caused by the dietary deficiency of riboflavin that is characterized by mouth lesions, seborrhea, and vascularization of the cornea.""

Aromatherapist

Districts of Paris

Arteriography

Artificiality

ASSERTIVENESS assertive

Astrobiologist

According to a means of proposed propulsion.

Writing or recording related

Astrophysical

Astrophysicist

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by irregular fatty deposits on the inner surface of large and medium-sized arteries; the deposits are associated with fibrosis and calcification of the inner layer of the arteries. Similar conditions may be found in swine and fowl. The deposits may become large enough to impede the blood circulation and in some cases may restrict the blood supply to the heart.

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.

In relation to the atmosphere.

Atrabilious

ATROCIOUSNESS atrocious

Authoritative

Autobiographer

Personal accounts (wordplay)

Confessions of a sort

Lives created in self-reliant way

""Statistics (Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent Also called serial correlation AUTOTRANSFUSION (Med) &#x2192; Eigenbluttransfusion f BENZENECARBONYL (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) (modifier) the systematic name for benzoyl BIOTECHNOLOGIST &#x2192; biotechnologue mf , biotechnologiste mf hc_En_Fr() BRACHISTOCHRONE (Mathematics) Maths the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent [from Greek brakhistos , superlative of brakhus short + chronos time]""

Autographical

Autoradiograph

The process of producing an autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.

Autotetraploid

AUTOTETRAPLOID

""A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.compensator or balancing coil.""

(Med) &#x2192; Eigenbluttransfusion f

""AUTOTROPHIC Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

BACKSCATTERING backscatter

Of the study of microorganisms

Life scientists

Scientists in bars, egoistic lot getting sozzled

Bacteriophagy

BARBAROUSNESS The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

BAREFACEDNESS The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

Bastardization

Bathymetrical

Benzanthracene

Like a librarian's job

Sourced

Bibliotherapy

Bidirectional

Biodegradation

BIOENGINEERING bioengineer

The study of the relationship between the geochemistry of a region and the animal and plant life in that region.

Of or pertaining to biogeography.

""The study of the spatial and temporal distribution of fossil organisms, often interpolated with radiometric, geochemical, and paleoenvironmental information as a means of dating rock strata.""

Bipartisanship

Bipolarization

Bittersweet

Guilt for a sin the Wombles rule out

Bouleversement

Bourgeoisify

Like serpentine writing

Bowdlerization

Brachycephaly

BRAINLESSNESS brainless

Braunschweiger

Breathability

Bremsstrahlung

Bronchodilator

Bronchoscopist

Brotherliness

BUREAUCRATISE bureaucrat

BUREAUCRATIZE

Businessperson

""CARCINOGENIC Causing or tending to cause cancer; as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.""

Carcinosarcoma

Pertaining to the heart and lungs

Carnivorous

Carpetbaggery

Categorization

The operation of introducing a catheter.

Centralization

Centrifugation

Adjective (-ic)

""The anterior section of arachnids and many crustaceans, consisting of the fused head and thorax.""

Cephalothorax

Of or relating to the blood vessels that supply the brain.

Attention to formal procedures

Formality of style that could make connoisseur seem silly

Chancellorship

Traits which with care vary in styles

Mark is in touch with jerks in Features

Honesty, politeness, charm, etc.

CHEERLESSNESS cheerless

CHEMOAUTOTROPH

Chemoreception

Chemotherapist

Star-of-Bethlehem flowers

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

Chlorothiazide

Chlorpromazine

Chlorpropamide

X-ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.

See vitamin D .

Cholestyramine

CHOLINERGIC

Cholinesterase

Chondrocranium

Chordamesoderm

""The highly vascular fetal membrane that consists of the fused chorion and allantois, found adjacent to the eggshell in reptiles and birds and constituting the placenta in most mammals.""

A very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.

Pl. choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor that develops from trophoblast cells and usually occurs in the uterus.

Chromatograph

Chromatograph