10-letter words containing e, t, o, u
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- rencounter — a hostile meeting; battle.
- repopulate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- resolutely — 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.
- resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- restitutor — a person who makes restitution
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- retributor — a person who retributes
- retrovirus — any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses having a helical envelope and containing an enzyme that allows for a reversal of genetic transcription, from RNA to DNA rather than the usual DNA to RNA, the newly transcribed viral DNA being incorporated into the host cell's DNA strand for the production of new RNA retroviruses: the family includes the AIDS virus and certain oncogene-carrying viruses implicated in various cancers.
- reunionist — a person who advocates the reunion of the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
- revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- roisterous — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- root cause — origin
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- route-ring — any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- routinized — to develop into a regular procedure.
- roysterous — boisterous
- rudderpost — the vertical member of a stern frame on which the rudder is hung; a sternpost.
- ruddevator — a control surface functioning both as a rudder and as an elevator.
- rule joint — (in carpentry and joinery) a joint between two hinged pieces, as between the center and end leaves of a table, consisting of a quarter round and fillet fitting against a cove and fillet.
- rune-stone — a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- saint-ouen — a suburb of Paris in N France.
- sans doute — without doubt; certainly.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- screen out — eliminate
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- search out — hunt for, seek
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- serotinous — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- setiferous — having setae or bristles.
- setigerous — having setae or bristles.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.