7-letter words containing e, t, o
- redcoat — (especially during the American Revolution) a British soldier.
- redfoot — a fatal disease of newborn lambs of unknown cause in which the horny layers of the feet become separated, exposing the red laminae below
- redoubt — Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
- redroot — a North American plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (or L. tinctoria), having sword-shaped leaves, woolly, yellowish flowers, and a root that is red in color.
- refloat — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
- refront — to put a new front on something
- rehovot — a town in central Israel, SE of Tel Aviv.
- relator — a person who relates or tells; narrator.
- remount — a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- repoint — to repair the joints of (brickwork, masonry, etc) with mortar or cement
- reposit — to put back; replace.
- requote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- reroute — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- reshoot — to shoot (a film, scene, photograph) again
- resojet — resonant jet (engine): a type of jet engine that produces a pulsating thrust due to the resonance produced by the shock waves which traverse it
- restock — refill, replenish with supplies
- restoke — to stoke (a fire, flames, a furnace, etc) again
- restore — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- retinol — vitamin A.
- retotal — to total or add up again
- retouch — to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
- revoted — a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- rewrote — to write in a different form or manner; revise: to rewrite the entire book.
- rexroth — Kenneth, 1905–82, U.S. poet, critic, and translator.
- reymont — Władysław Stanisław [vwah-dee-swahf stah-nee-swahf] /vwɑˈdi swɑf stɑˈni swɑf/ (Show IPA), ("Ladislas Regmont") 1868–1925, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1924.
- rhetors — a master or teacher of rhetoric.
- rideout — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- rigolet — a small stream; rivulet.
- riotise — riotous behaviour and excess
- riposte — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- roaster — roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- roberta — a female given name: derived from Robert.
- roberts — Henry Martyn [mahr-tn] /ˈmɑr tn/ (Show IPA), 1837–1923, U.S. engineer and authority on parliamentary procedure: author of Robert's Rules of Order (1876, revised 1915).
- rodents — belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc.
- rodster — an angler or fisherman
- roethke — Theodore, 1908–63, U.S. poet and teacher.
- roister — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- rontgen — Julius [yoo-lee-uh s] /ˈyu li əs/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer; born in Germany.
- roosted — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rooster — the male of domestic fowl and certain game birds; cock.
- rootage — the act of taking root.
- rootier — abounding in or consisting of roots.
- rootlet — a little root.
- roseate — tinged with rose; rosy: a roseate dawn.
- rosetta — a town in N Egypt, at a mouth of the Nile.
- rosette — a female given name.
- rotifer — any microscopic animal of the phylum (or class) Rotifera, found in fresh and salt waters, having one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end.
- rouster — roustabout (def 1).
- routhie — abundant, plentiful, or well filled