8-letter words containing g, r, e, t
- prestige — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- protegee — a woman under the patronage, protection, or care of someone interested in her career or welfare.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- ragtimer — a person who plays ragtime music
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- ratingen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W central Germany, N of Dusseldorf.
- ravigote — a highly seasoned velouté with white wine and vinegar, butter, cream, and mushrooms cooked in liquor, usually served hot with variety meats and poultry.
- reacting — to act or perform again.
- rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- redigest — to digest again
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- regather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- regelate — to freeze by regelation.
- regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- register — a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
- registry — Windows Registry
- regolith — mantle rock.
- regrator — a person who regrates or buys up commodities in advance and sells them for a higher price, esp during a crisis
- regrowth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- reignite — to set on fire; kindle.
- reingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- relating — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- relegate — 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.
- remigate — to row
- renegate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- 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.
- retarget — to aim toward or calibrate for a different target: to retarget missiles.
- retaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- retiring — that retires.
- ridgetop — the summit of a ridge
- rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- ringette — a team sport played on ice, using straight sticks to control a rubber ring
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
- ringtone — telephone's ringing sound
- riveting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- roentgen — Wilhelm Konrad [wil-helm kon-rad;; German vil-helm kawn-raht] /ˈwɪl hɛlm ˈkɒn ræd;; German ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈkɔn rɑt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1923, German physicist: discoverer of x-rays 1895; Nobel prize 1901.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- routeing — (networking) (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office