10-letter words containing a, r, e, p, t
- quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
- quadruplet — any group or combination of four.
- race plate — a metallic, plastic, or wooden strip directly in front of the reed on the lay of a loom, along which the shuttle travels in its passage through the shed.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- rampasture — a large attic room.
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- rapier wit — ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks
- rapportage — the factual reporting or recounting of events in writing
- rapporteur — a person responsible for compiling reports and presenting them, as to a governing body.
- ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
- rattlepate — a rattlebrain.
- rattletrap — a shaky, rattling object, as a rickety vehicle.
- re-attempt — to attempt (something) again
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- re-baptize — to baptize (someone) again
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- recapturer — a person who recaptures something or someone
- recarpeted — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- receptacle — a container, device, etc., that receives or holds something: a receptacle for trash.
- recuperate — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- red carpet — a red strip of carpet placed on the ground for high-ranking dignitaries to walk on when entering or leaving a building, vehicle, or the like.
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- rent party — (especially during the Great Depression) a party with music and dancing, given to raise money for the host's rent by collecting a contribution from each guest.
- 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
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reparative — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- reparatory — 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.
- repeatable — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- repeatedly — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- 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.
- repopulate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- reportable — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- reprobator — an action taken to demonstrate that a witness should be disqualified or rejected on account of perjury or other cause of invalidity
- 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
- respectant — aspectant.
- 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.
- revampment — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rose topaz — a rose-pink form of topaz produced by heating yellow-brown topaz
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- sapperment — a German oath
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.