10-letter words containing p, r, a, e, c
- recarpeted — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- receptacle — a container, device, etc., that receives or holds something: a receptacle for trash.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- recuperate — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- red carpet — a red strip of carpet placed on the ground for high-ranking dignitaries to walk on when entering or leaving a building, vehicle, or the like.
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- repackager — a person who or a company that repackages
- repellance — the act of repelling; a repellent quality or trait, repellence
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- 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.
- reply card — a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- respectant — aspectant.
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- rice paper — a thin paper made from the straw of rice, as in China.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- sale price — discounted cost
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scapegrace — a complete rogue or rascal; a habitually unscrupulous person; scamp.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.