10-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- repeatedly — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- repentigny — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- repertoire — the list of dramas, operas, parts, pieces, etc., that a company, actor, singer, or the like, is prepared to perform.
- repetiteur — the vocal coach of an opera chorus.
- repetition — the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
- repetitive — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- repinement — the act of repining, discontentment
- replanting — to plant again.
- 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.
- replotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- repointing — the act or process of repairing the joints of (brickwork, masonry, etc) with mortar or cement
- 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.
- reportedly — according to report or rumor: Reportedly, he is a billionaire.
- reposition — the act of depositing or storing.
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- reprobator — an action taken to demonstrate that a witness should be disqualified or rejected on account of perjury or other cause of invalidity
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- 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.
- reputative — reputed, putative, regarded as such
- reputeless — without repute; ignominious
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- resorption — the destruction, disappearance, or dissolution of a tissue or part by biochemical activity, as the loss of bone or of tooth dentin.
- respectant — aspectant.
- respectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- respecting — regarding; concerning.
- respective — pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular: I will now discuss the respective merits of the candidates.
- 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.
- respondent — a person who responds or makes reply.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- retrospect — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- revampment — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rheopectic — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
- ribbentrop — Joachim von [yoh-ah-khim fuh n] /ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm fən/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, German leader in the Nazi party: minister of foreign affairs 1938–45; executed for war crimes.
- rinderpest — an acute, usually fatal infectious disease of cattle, sheep, etc., caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus and characterized by high fever, diarrhea, and lesions of the skin and mucous membranes.
- ripidolite — a mineral of the chlorite group, essentially hydrated magnesium and aluminum silicate with some ferrous iron.
- ripsnorter — something or someone exceedingly strong or violent: a ripsnorter of a gale.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- roodepoort — an industrial city in NE South Africa, in the Witwatersrand. Pop: 172 601 (2001)
- rose topaz — a rose-pink form of topaz produced by heating yellow-brown topaz
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- rudderpost — the vertical member of a stern frame on which the rudder is hung; a sternpost.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
- sapperment — a German oath
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.