10-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e
- rent-a-mob — a group of people who are considered to always be protesting in a seemingly irrational manner, as if simply hired from a rental service for the purpose of protesting
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reparatory — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- repopulate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- reportable — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- reprobator — an action taken to demonstrate that a witness should be disqualified or rejected on account of perjury or other cause of invalidity
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonating — to resound.
- resonation — to resound.
- respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
- restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
- restorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- retrograde — moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
- retroviral — A retroviral is any one of a group of viruses, many of which produce tumors, that contain RNA and reverse transcriptase (= an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA), including the virus that causes AIDS.
- revelation — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- revelatory — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of revelation.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- rheostatic — 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.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
- road metal — broken stone, cinders, etc., used for making roads.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- room rates — the rates charged daily for hotel rooms
- root cause — origin
- rose topaz — a rose-pink form of topaz produced by heating yellow-brown topaz
- rose-water — having the aroma or fragrance of rose water.
- rostellate — having a rostellum.
- rotary hoe — a cultivating implement consisting of a row of wheels each with many fingerlike prongs, pulled over the ground to break up the soil and destroy weeds.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- ruddevator — a control surface functioning both as a rudder and as an elevator.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- salt horse — salted beef; salt junk.
- saltarello — a lively Italian dance for one person or a couple.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarmentose — having runners.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.