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10-letter words containing c, o, r, e, t, i

  • recreation — the act of creating anew.
  • recusation — the act of recusing a judge
  • redirector — network redirector
  • rediscount — to discount again.
  • reelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
  • reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
  • 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.
  • relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
  • 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.
  • restrictor — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
  • retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
  • retrochoir — that part of a church behind the choir or the main altar.
  • revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
  • rheopectic — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
  • 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.
  • rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
  • rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
  • richthofen — Baron Manfred von [mahn-freyt fuh n] /ˈmɑn freɪt fən/ (Show IPA), ("Red Baron"or"Red Knight") 1892–1918, German aviator.
  • ricocheted — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
  • rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
  • roscoelite — a brown variety of muscovite in which some aluminum is replaced by vanadium.
  • rotten ice — ice pitted or honeycombed from melting.
  • sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
  • sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
  • sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
  • siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
  • sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
  • soricident — having shrewlike teeth
  • spec ratio — (benchmark)   Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
  • spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
  • stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
  • stockrider — a cowboy.
  • stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • surjection — onto function.
  • switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
  • switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
  • telecopier — a fax machine
  • tetratomic — having four atoms per molecule, especially of a specified kind.
  • theocratic — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
  • theophoric — having the name of a god embedded in something, such as a name
  • theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
  • thermionic — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
  • thermotics — the scientific study of heat
  • tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
  • tom cruise — Tom (Thomas Cruise Mapother, 4th) born 1962, U.S. film actor.
  • toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
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