12-letter words containing p, r, i, e, t
- recuperative — that recuperates.
- redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
- redemptively — serving to redeem.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- reoccupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- repaginating — 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.
- repagination — Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.
- repatriation — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- repetitively — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- replantation — to plant again.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- repositorium — a place for the storage of valuables, as in an ancient Roman temple or a church.
- representing — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- reprioritize — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- repristinate — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- reproportion — comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- reputability — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- respirometer — an instrument for measuring the extent of respiratory movement.
- respirometry — the branch of medical science dealing with the measurement and analysis of respiration.
- respite care — Respite care is short-term care that is provided for very old or very sick people so that the person who usually cares for them can have a break.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retail price — amount sth costs in shops
- retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- rhythmopoeia — the art or process of composing, for example, music or poetry rhythmically
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- saint-pierre — two small groups of islands off the S coast of Newfoundland: an overseas territory of France; important base for fishing. 3 sq. mi. (240 sq. km). Capital: St. Pierre.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
- screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- semiparasite — hemiparasite
- semitropical — subtropical.
- separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
- separatrices — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.