8-letter words containing e, r, n, s
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- realness — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
- reascend — to ascend again
- reascent — a further ascent
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- recensor — someone who produces a recension or recensions
- recision — an act of canceling or voiding; cancellation.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- redesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- redstone — a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
- refasten — to fasten again
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reinfuse — to infuse again
- reingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- reinless — (of a horse, rider, or driver) lacking reins
- reinsert — put in again
- reinsist — to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- reinsure — to insure again.
- reinvest — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- relisten — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- renverse — performed with the body bent from the waist: a pirouette renversé.
- rescreen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- 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.
- resented — to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- resenter — a person who feels resentment
- resident — a person who resides in a place.
- residing — to replace the siding on (a building).
- resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
- resignee — a person who has resigned or is about to resign.
- resinata — a type of white wine from Greece
- resinate — to treat with resin, as by impregnation.
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- resining — any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- resinize — to apply resin to
- resinoid — resinlike.
- resinous — full of or containing resin.
- resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- resoften — to make or become soft again
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.