10-letter words containing g, i, r, a
- ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
- rating nut — a nut that screws onto the lower end of the rod of a clock pendulum for raising or lowering the weight to alter the rate of the clock.
- rattlingly — in a way that rattles
- re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- re-imagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- rear light — vehicle's tail or back light
- rear sight — the sight nearest the breech of a firearm.
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- rebranding — marketing sth under new image
- reenacting — to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- regainment — the act or process of regaining something
- regelation — a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.
- regimental — of or relating to a regiment.
- regionally — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- registrant — a person who registers or is registered.
- registrary — (at Cambridge University) a registrar
- registrate — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- regularise — to make regular.
- regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
- regularize — to make regular.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- rehandling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- relabeling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- relearning — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
- relegation — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- relitigate — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- remarriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- remigation — the act of rowing
- renegation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- reorganize — arrange differently
- repaginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repapering — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- resonating — to resound.
- reteaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- retracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- retraining — the process of teaching people, esp workers, new skills
- retreating — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- ride again — to return to a former activity or scene of activity
- rigamarole — rigmarole.
- right away — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right bank — a part of Paris, France, on the N bank of the Seine.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- right-hand — on the right.
- right-laid — noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a right-handed, or clockwise, direction as one looks away along it (opposed to left-laid).