12-letter words containing h, o, r, e
- re-authorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
- rear echelon — (in a military operation) the troops, officers, etc., removed from the combat zone and responsible for administration, matériel, etc.
- recordholder — a person or thing recognized for the accomplishment of a feat to a better or greater degree than any other.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- rephotograph — to photograph again
- reprehension — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
- reproachable — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- reprographer — a perspm who engages in reprography
- resort hotel — a hotel in a holiday resort
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
- rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
- rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
- rheomorphism — the liquefaction of rock, which results in its flowing and intruding into surrounding rocks
- rheoreceptor — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
- rhinorrhoeal — of or relating to rhinorrhoea
- rhode island — US state
- rhodes grass — a grass, Chloris gayana, native to Africa, used as pasturage and fodder in warm climates.
- rhododendron — any evergreen or deciduous shrub or tree belonging to the genus Rhododendron, of the heath family, having rounded clusters of showy, pink, purple, or white flowers and oval or oblong leaves.
- rhodomontade — rodomontade
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- rhopaloceral — of or relating to creatures from the Rhopalocera division of animals, which includes all butterflies, distinguished from moths on account of their club-shaped antennae
- rhynchophore — a member of the Rhynchophora, a former name for the superfamily of beetles (Curculionoidea) that comprises the weevils and bark beetles
- rhythmometer — a type of metronome that gives or marks the beat or time in musical movements
- rhythmopoeia — the art or process of composing, for example, music or poetry rhythmically
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
- ride herd on — a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
- right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- road haulier — a person who owns or works for a road haulage company; a trucker
- robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
- rock chopper — a Roman Catholic
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- rohnert park — a city in W California.
- roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
- romney marsh — one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- rosh chodesh — the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, celebrated in a specified manner during the morning service in the synagogue.