10-letter words containing a, n, c, r, e
- racemation — a bunch, collection, or group
- racerunner — a whiptail lizard, Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, common in the eastern and central U.S., that runs with great speed.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- rain check — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rain dance — (especially among American Indians) a ritualistic dance performed to bring rain.
- raise cain — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- ratcheting — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- re-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
- reacquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- recallment — a recall
- recanalize — to provide (an area, etc) with a canal or canals again
- recitation — an act of reciting.
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reclaimant — a person who makes appeals to reclaim.
- recontract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- rectangled — having right angles
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redcurrant — any of various currant shrubs of the genus Ribes, bearing an edible, red fruit.
- redundance — the state of being redundant.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- reenacting — to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- regeneracy — a regenerate state.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reincrease — to increase again
- reindicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- reiterance — a repetition or iteration
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- reluctance — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- remittance — the sending of money, checks, etc., to a recipient at a distance.
- renascence — Renaissance.
- rent-a-car — a company or service that rents cars, as by the day or week.
- rental car — hired motor vehicle
- renunciate — any religious devotee who renounces earthly pleasures and lives as an ascetic
- repellance — the act of repelling; a repellent quality or trait, repellence
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.