10-letter words containing c, e, r, a, t
- 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
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- 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.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- resectable — able to be resected
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- respectant — aspectant.
- retardance — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- reteaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- reticulate — netted; covered with a network.
- retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- retractile — capable of being drawn back or in, as the head of a tortoise; exhibiting the power of retraction.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- retractive — tending or serving to retract.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- 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.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rivercraft — a small vessel which is used to travel on rivers
- root cause — origin
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- saccharate — a salt of saccharic acid.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- safety car — life car.
- saltcellar — a shaker or dish for salt.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- scarcement — a footing or ledge formed by a setoff in a wall.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- search out — hunt for, seek
- seat cover — a cover for a seat