10-letter words containing a, l, t, e, r, i
- relegation — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- relitigate — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- remittable — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- replanting — to plant again.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- requitable — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- retailment — the act or process of retailing
- retainable — to keep possession of.
- retaliated — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- reticulate — netted; covered with a network.
- retinalite — a translucent greenish yellow variety of the mineral serpentine
- retractile — capable of being drawn back or in, as the head of a tortoise; exhibiting the power of retraction.
- retroviral — A retroviral is any one of a group of viruses, many of which produce tumors, that contain RNA and reverse transcriptase (= an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA), including the virus that causes AIDS.
- revalidate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revelation — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- revitalise — to give new life to.
- revitalize — to give new life to.
- revivalist — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- ritualized — to practice ritualism.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- salt river — a river flowing W from E Arizona to the Gila River near Phoenix: Roosevelt Dam. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sea trials — a series of trial runs to test the performance of a new ship.
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- semestrial — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- senatorial — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a senator or senate: senatorial oratory.
- serial ata — Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
- sertraline — a drug, C 17 H 17 NCl 2 ·HCl, of the SSRI class, used in the treatment of depression.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- spitballer — a pitcher who is known or believed to throw spitballs.
- squaretail — any of several fishes of the genus Tetragonurus, inhabiting deep waters of tropical and temperate seas, having a squarish tail and an armor of tough, bony scales.
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.