9-letter words containing a, n, s, e, r
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- raspiness — harsh; grating; rasping.
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- re-answer — to answer (a question, etc) again
- re-assign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- readiness — the condition of being ready.
- realising — to grasp or understand clearly.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- recusancy — the state of being recusant.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- regalness — of or relating to a king; royal: the regal power.
- rehashing — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- reinstall — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- reinstate — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- resharpen — to sharpen again
- resistant — resisting.
- resnatron — a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency.
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- restaging — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- restained — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- restating — to state again or in a new way.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rinseable — able to be rinsed
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rosecrans — William Starke [stahrk] /stɑrk/ (Show IPA), 1819–98, U.S. general.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rubensian — Peter Paul [pee-ter pawl;; Flemish pey-tuh r poul] /ˈpi tər pɔl;; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1577–1640, Flemish painter.
- ruralness — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- safranine — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- sand pear — Asian pear.
- sanderson — Tessa. born 1956, British javelin-thrower: won gold at the 1984 Olympics