8-letter words containing o, r, a, e
- red roan — a horse having a bay coat sprinkled with white hairs
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- regrator — a person who regrates or buys up commodities in advance and sells them for a higher price, esp during a crisis
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- relation — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- releasor — a person who releases an estate to someone else
- reloaded — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- reloader — a person or thing that reloads something such as cargo or ammunition
- relocate — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- remolade — rémoulade.
- renegado — a renegade.
- renogram — a kidney scan monitoring the throughput by the kidney of a radioactive chemical injected into the bloodstream
- renovate — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
- reobtain — 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.
- reordain — to ordain again
- repo man — a person who is employed to take back or repossess property, esp because of failure to make payments under a hire-purchase agreement
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reproval — the act of reproving.
- reseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- responsa — the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.
- restoral — restoration.
- retailor — to make (clothing) suitable for a new person or purpose by changing the details
- retroact — to act in opposition; react.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- roadside — the side or border of the road; wayside.
- roadster — an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- roanpipe — a drainpipe leading down from a gutter
- rocaille — Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.
- rodentia — the order comprising the rodents.
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- roleplay — to assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), especially in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction: Management trainees were given a chance to role-play labor negotiators.
- rollable — able to roll or be rolled
- romancer — a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively): We knew it was a romance, so we were expecting a happy ending. Romance novels are popular escapist entertainment.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- rombauer — Irma von Starkloff [stahrk-lawf,, ‐lof] /ˈstɑrk lɔf,, ‐lɒf/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, U.S. cooking expert and cookbook writer.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- rondache — a small, round shield