10-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- radiometer — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rapportage — the factual reporting or recounting of events in writing
- rapporteur — a person responsible for compiling reports and presenting them, as to a governing body.
- rated load — the load a machine or vehicle is rated to carry.
- ratio test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the absolute value of the ratio of the term succeeding the n th term to the n th term approaches a limit less than 1 as n increases without bound.
- ratiometer — (in three-color photography) a device for determining the exposure factors of the filters to be used.
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- re-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- reallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- recitation — an act of reciting.
- recitativo — recitative2 .
- recontract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redecorate — to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish: to decorate walls with murals.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- regal moth — a large moth, Citheronia regalis, having yellow spots on gray to olive forewings and on orange-red hind wings.
- 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.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relational — of or relating to relations.
- relaxation — abatement or relief from bodily or mental work, effort, application, etc.
- 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.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- remigation — the act of rowing
- remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- remortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- remotivate — to motivate again
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- renegation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- renominate — to nominate again
- renotation — a system of graphic symbols for a specialized use, other than ordinary writing: musical notation.
- renovation — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
- renovative — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.