10-letter words containing p, r, a, e
- rattletrap — a shaky, rattling object, as a rickety vehicle.
- re-apparel — to clothe (someone or something) again
- re-approve — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- re-attempt — to attempt (something) again
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- re-baptize — to baptize (someone) again
- re-explain — to explain again or in a different way
- re-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- reappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- reapproach — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- reapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- recapturer — a person who recaptures something or someone
- 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.
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- renography — x-ray examination of the kidney following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- rent party — (especially during the Great Depression) a party with music and dancing, given to raise money for the host's rent by collecting a contribution from each guest.
- repackager — a person who or a company that repackages
- repaginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repair kit — a set of items, instructions, etc designed to assist with the repair of a specific thing
- repair man — mechanic: male who fixes appliances
- repairable — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repapering — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reparative — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- reparatory — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- repatriate — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- repeatable — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- repeatedly — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- 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.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- 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.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- repolarize — to polarize again or become polarized again
- 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.