9-letter words containing o, i, r, e, a
- raise hob — to cause mischief or disturbance
- randomize — to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
- range oil — oil suitable for burning as the fuel of a kitchen stove.
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- rationale — the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
- ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
- re-anoint — to anoint (a person or thing) again
- re-obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- read into — If you read a meaning into something, you think it is there although it may not actually be there.
- realaudio — (tool, communications) A program from Real Media for playing audio over the Internet, and the lossy audio compression format it uses. The system is implemented as a client/server architecture. The RealAudio server incorporates an encoder which compresses sound into RealAudio files. The client side is a web browser plug-in or add-on (a recent version of Internet Explorer apparently has built-in support for RealAudio) which allows the stream of data sent from the server to be uncompressed and output using the normal sound facilities of the computer, such as a sound card. A 14.4 KBps or better modem is required, and a 28.8 KBps connection is recommended for music-quality sound.
- reappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- reboation — a repeated bellowing sound
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- recoinage — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- reloading — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- reptation — a creeping motion; the act of crawling
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- reviolate — to violate again
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rhoeadine — a chemical compound found in the red poppy which has similar effects to those of opium
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rice coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/16 to 5/16 inch (about 0.5 to 0.8 cm).
- rigmarole — an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
- riot gear — Riot gear is the special clothing and equipment worn by police officers or soldiers when they have to deal with a riot.
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- road bike — a bike designed to be ridden on roads, as opposed to a mountain bike
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- rodgersia — a type of flowering plant which grows in shady and moist conditions
- roid rage — angry and aggressive behaviour caused by the use of anabolic steroids
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rosemarie — a female given name.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- rovaniemi — a city in N Finland, near the Arctic Circle.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcosine — a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.