10-letter words containing e, c, a, l, r
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reclaimant — a person who makes appeals to reclaim.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
- recordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- rectangled — having right angles
- recyclable — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- reflex arc — the nerve pathways followed by an impulse during a reflex.
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- rejectable — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- relay race — a race between two or more teams of contestants, each contestant being relieved by a teammate after running part of the distance.
- relic area — (in dialect geography) an area isolated from the influences of any focal area and preserving older linguistic forms that have been lost in other regions.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- reluctance — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- rental car — hired motor vehicle
- repellance — the act of repelling; a repellent quality or trait, repellence
- 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 card — a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- resectable — able to be resected
- reticulate — netted; covered with a network.
- retractile — capable of being drawn back or in, as the head of a tortoise; exhibiting the power of retraction.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- 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.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sacralized — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sale price — discounted cost
- salesclerk — a person who sells goods in a store.
- saltcellar — a shaker or dish for salt.
- sarcolemma — the membranous sheath of a muscle fiber.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- saucerlike — resembling a saucer
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- screenland — filmdom.
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- scrollhead — billethead.
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- sea cradle — chiton (def 1).