15-Letter Words Containing R

CHROMATOGRAPH a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.

Chronobiology

The study of the effects of time and rhythmical phenomena on life processes.

January first (wordplay)

Chronotherapy

""Of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain and its Latin-American colonies, characterized by elaborate and extravagant decoration.""

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

""CINEMATOGRAPH an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo\'94gyroscope, zo\'94praxiscope, etc.movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the <altname>movie projector</altname> are <altname>animatograph</altname>, <altname>biograph</altname>, <altname>bioscope</altname>, <altname>electrograph</altname>, <altname>electroscope</altname>, <altname>kinematograph</altname>, <altname>kinetoscope</altname>, <altname>veriscope</altname>, <altname>vitagraph</altname>,

CIRCULARIZE CIRCULAR a leaflet

Circumambient

CIRCUMAMBULATE To walk round about.

Circumambulate

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

Rhetorical evasions

Ways of talking round Milton? C-c-curious work

'... put a girdle round the earth ...'

Went Magellan one farther

Went completely around

Circumnavigate

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

An inscription written around anything.

CIRCUMSPECTION Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

Describe in full detail

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Circumvolution

Citriculturist

CLAMOROUSNESS clamorous

Claustrophobia

Asset for a mathematician

""DETERMINATION The act of determining, or the state of being determined.""

Coinvestigator

One's showing ice - ie must have this!

Lack of affection

Unsympathetic quality

Collaborative

Collaterality

COLLATERALIZE

COLORFASTNESS colorfast

COLORLESSNESS colorless

Combinatorial

State of being comfortable or comforting manner.

Commemorative

Commensuration

COMMERCIALISE commercial

COMMERCIALIST

Commerciality

""COMMERCIALIZE to make something commercial in character, either by placing it for sale on the open market, or by emphasizing its profit-making aspects; as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.""

Commiserating

Percentage rise ordered to cover area hotel employees

DOORKEEPERS

Comparability

Comparative

Complementary

Complementary

The state or quality of being complementary: "This is where the complementarity of the masculine and the feminine so acutely emerges. They are the necessary poles of a dialectic process" (Therese Namenek).

Complementizer

At no cost

How Ph.D. aspirants are tested

So as to contain everything

Including everything

""The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids. as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.""

English word

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

Computerphobia

Comradeliness

Concelebration

Concentricity

Conceptualizer

CONCERTEDNESS concerted

Concertmeister

Ballpark figures (wordplay)

Certain lunch counter operators.

Ballpark figures

Concretization

Confectionary

Sweet products in set, refine Coco Pops

Force nieces into cooking lots of sweets (wordplay)

""CONFIGURATION Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.""

CONFIRMEDNESS A fixed state.

Confraternity

In an in-your-face way

Dealing hostilely with others

Aggressively hostile

Conglomerateur

Mixed coherent masses.

Left to invade African country with armies, not revolutionary masses

Mixtures

Way to go!

Word often heard at weddings

Greeting-card message

Congressional

Congressperson

CONGRUOUSNESS congruous

Connaturality

His cousin, person cast in the role of a pundit

Skill of well-informed person somehow crushes opinions

A greenkeeper (wordplay)

Green satin cover is not to be changed

T.R. was one

""A person in charge of maintaining or restoring valuable items, as in a museum or library.""

Considerate

Certain interpreter of laws

Interpreter of the Constitution

Certain jurist

Constructivism

Constructivist

Containerboard

The state of being contemporaneous.

Like Shakespeare and Bacon

Arising at the same time.

Occurring at the same time

Flexible, as an acrobat

""Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air.""

Contractility

Opposites

In a contradictory manner.

Advised against a treatment

Line of prisoners pegged out, having received punishment against medical advice

Makes inadvisable

Contraposition

Contrapositive

Power of regulation

Horse purchaser's consideration

Controllership

In a polemical manner.

Polemically

Italian footballer and friend entertaining Tranmere team in a contentious manner

The state of being convertible; convertibility.

""CONVEYORIZE CONVEYOR one that conveys, also CONVEYER""

Cooperationist

What police seek in an investigation

CORPOREALNESS Corporeality; corporeity.

Letters

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corrigibility

CORROSIVENESS corrosive

Some anti-inflammatories

Corticosterone

Corticotrophin

CORYNEBACTERIA

""Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.""

Inflected form of TRANSDUCTIONS Inflected form of TRANSDUCTION The act of conveying over.

COULOMETRIC

Councillorship

Part of a debate

Dialogue between diner waitresses (wordplay)

Debate side

Counterassault

Responded in kind, in a way

One who fights back

One who fights fire with fire

Set off accelerant - bound to get in trouble

Neutralized

Amounts owed at a diner (wordplay)

Offsets

English word

English word

COUNTERCHANGE To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

COUNTERCHARGE An opposing charge.

Countercheck

Counterclaim

COUNTERCULTURE

They maybe antiestablishment

Countercurrent

Intended to compensate for immoderate developments in a business cycle: a countercyclical federal aid program.

Might it be used against dishonest shop-assistant (wordplay)

Counterexample

English word

Noun (-ance)

Distractive annoyance

Countermarch

Perhaps 1 evaluates retaliations (wordplay)

Haberdasher uses these precautions

Retaliatory actions

Countermelody

A movement in opposition to another.

Counterorder

Noun (-tion)

Counterpicket

""COUNTERPLOT To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.""

Counterpoint

Noun (-ure)

Counterproject

An offer of marriage in store (wordplay)

Response to unsatis- factory plan

Negotiator's offering

Counterprotest

COUNTERPUNCHER counterpunch

Counterpunch

Noun (-tion)

Counterrally

Noun (-tion)

Counterreform

English word

Countershading

Counterstain

Present participle or gerund

English word

English word

Noun (-ence)

Counterweight

COURTEOUSNESS The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.

Capable of withstanding the effects of a crash: crashworthy cars; crashworthy seats.

Creditability

CREDULOUSNESS Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.

Crestfallen

Act of making illegal

Outlawing

""Of, relating to, or derived from more than one family of languages; as, cross-linguistic evidence.as, cross-linguistic evidence.""

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.

Crotchetiness

Cryoprotectant

CRYPTANALYTIC

Cryptorchidism

Cryptozoology

Sasquatch studier, say

One studying this puzzle's sightings

Dinosaur hunter, by definition

Crystallinity

""The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.""

Use for x-rays

Science concerned with the formation, properties and structure of clear quartz

Customariness

Cyproheptadine

Cytochemistry

Abbr. CMV Any of a group of herpes viruses that attack and enlarge epithelial cells. Such viruses also cause a disease of infants characterized by circulatory dysfunction and microcephaly.

The study of cells and chemical compounds within cells by means of a cytophotometer.

Daguerreotypy

Reproducing photos by a former method, on a silver plate

One who takes daguerreotypes.

DANGEROUSNESS dangerous

Dastardliness

Inflected form of CARBOXYLATING Inflected form of CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

CARBOXYLATION

""The act, process, or result of decarburizing.""

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Dechlorination

Decolorization

""Inflected form of CONCENTRATING Inflected form of CONCENTRATE To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.""

Act of deconcentrating.