10-letter words containing a, p, e, r, i
- rapier wit — ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- re-baptize — to baptize (someone) again
- re-explain — to explain again or in a different way
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- reappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- repaginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repair kit — a set of items, instructions, etc designed to assist with the repair of a specific thing
- repair man — mechanic: male who fixes appliances
- repairable — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repapering — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reparative — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- repatriate — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- 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.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- repolarize — to polarize again or become polarized again
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- reputative — reputed, putative, regarded as such
- respirable — capable of being respired.
- respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- rice paper — a thin paper made from the straw of rice, as in China.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- sailplaner — a person who flies sailplanes
- sale price — discounted cost
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- sapphirine — consisting of sapphire; like sapphire, especially in color.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.