8-letter words containing e, s, r, o
- racemous — racemose.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- reabsorb — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- reassort — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- recensor — someone who produces a recension or recensions
- rechoose — to choose (something or someone) again
- recision — an act of canceling or voiding; cancellation.
- recourse — access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection: to have recourse to the courts for justice.
- red rose — the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
- 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.
- redhorse — any of several suckers of the genus Moxostoma, found in the fresh waters of North America, often having reddish fins.
- redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
- redstone — a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
- reedstop — an organ stop that is made up of or that controls a rank of reed pipes
- reforest — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- refresco — a refreshment, as a soft drink.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- releasor — a person who releases an estate to someone else
- remorses — deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
- remotest — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- reoppose — to oppose again
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- repousse — (of a design) raised in relief by hammering on the reverse side.
- reschool — to school again; retrain
- 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.
- reshower — to shower again
- resinoid — resinlike.
- resinous — full of or containing resin.
- resistor — a device designed to introduce resistance into an electric circuit.
- resmooth — to make smooth again
- resoften — to make or become soft again
- resolder — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- resolute — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resolved — firm in purpose or intent; determined.
- resolver — to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something): I have resolved that I shall live to the full.
- 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.
- resorted — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.