8-letter words containing g, e, n, r
- receding — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
- red wing — (Tantangamini) c1750–c1825, Sioux leader.
- 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.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- reedling — the bearded tit.
- reengine — to equip with a new engine or engines, as an aircraft.
- refining — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- regalian — of or relating to regalia or royalty
- regaling — to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
- regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- reginald — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “counsel and rule.”.
- regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- reground — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- reigning — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- reignite — to set on fire; kindle.
- reingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- relacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relaxing — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- relaying — re-lay.
- 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.
- reliving — to experience again, as an emotion.
- remargin — to provide additional cash or collateral to a broker in order to keep secure stock bought on margin.
- renegade — a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
- renegado — a renegade.
- renegate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- reneging — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
- renogram — a kidney scan monitoring the throughput by the kidney of a radioactive chemical injected into the bloodstream
- repining — to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- replunge — the act of replunging
- residing — to replace the siding on (a building).
- resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
- resignee — a person who has resigned or is about to resign.
- 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.
- resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- respring — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- retiring — that retires.
- reveling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revenged — to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit: He revenged his murdered brother.
- revering — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
- reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- rewiring — the action or process of installing new electrical wiring
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.