8-letter words containing e, n, r, o
- reground — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- reinform — to inform again or anew
- reinhold — a male given name.
- reinvoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- rejoined — to say in answer; reply, especially to counterreply.
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- remotion — the act of removing; removal.
- renegado — a renegade.
- renforce — to reinforce
- reniform — kidney-shaped: a reniform leaf; hematite in reniform masses.
- renogram — a kidney scan monitoring the throughput by the kidney of a radioactive chemical injected into the bloodstream
- renotice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- renotify — to notify again
- renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- renovate — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- renowner — a renown giver; someone who makes another person famous or renowned
- rent boy — A rent boy is a boy or young man who has sex with men for money.
- rent out — hire, offer for rental
- reobtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- reoffend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
- reopener — an act or instance of reopening negotiations, as on the provisions of a contract.
- reordain — to ordain again
- reorient — Rare. rising anew.
- replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.
- repo man — a person who is employed to take back or repossess property, esp because of failure to make payments under a hire-purchase agreement
- reponder — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- reseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- resinoid — resinlike.
- resinous — full of or containing resin.
- resoften — to make or become soft again
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- resorcin — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.
- responsa — the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.
- response — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- resummon — to summon again
- retinoic — containing or derived from retinoid
- retinoid — Biochemistry. any of a group of substances related to vitamin A and functioning like vitamin A in the body.
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
- revision — the act or work of revising.
- reynolds — a male given name, form of Reginald.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rheotron — (formerly) betatron.
- rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- ringbone — a morbid bony growth on the pastern bones of a horse, often resulting in lameness.
- ringdove — a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.
- ringtone — telephone's ringing sound
- ritenuto — held back momentarily