14-Letter Words Containing: RIS__

• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

• the act of making someone poor

• the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

• the collection of rules imposed by authority

• restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction

• typical or distinctive

• a prominent attribute or aspect of something

• a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something

• the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

• any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions

• An early device for observing individual nuclear disintegrations.