10-letter words containing g, r, e, n, a
- prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
- prewarning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- pro-german — of or relating to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
- prolongate — to prolong.
- pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
- protogenia — the first woman born after the great flood of Zeus, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- quarreling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
- quartering — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- rain gauge — an instrument for measuring rainfall.
- rake angle — The rake angle is the angle of the surface of a cutting tool tip over which the removed chips flow.
- range line — (in U.S. public-land surveys) one of two parallel lines running north and south that define the east and west borders of a township. Compare township (def 2), township line.
- range pole — a conspicuously painted pole held upright to show the position of a survey mark.
- range wool — the wool of sheep raised west of the Mississippi River, especially in Washington and the Rocky Mountain States.
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- ratcheting — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
- ravagement — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- re-arrange — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- re-engrave — to engrave again
- re-enlarge — to enlarge again
- 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).
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- rebranding — marketing sth under new image
- rectangled — having right angles
- reed organ — a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
- 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
- regalement — to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
- 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.
- regeneracy — a regenerate state.
- regenerate — to effect a complete moral reform in.
- 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.
- reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- 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.
- remigation — the act of rowing
- renegation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.