10-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- 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.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- repinement — the act of repining, discontentment
- repiningly — in a repining manner, discontentedly
- 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.
- replotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- repointing — the act or process of repairing the joints of (brickwork, masonry, etc) with mortar or cement
- repolarize — to polarize again or become polarized again
- 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.
- repoussoir — a figure or object in the extreme foreground: used as a contrast and to increase the illusion of depth.
- repression — the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- repressive — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- respelling — to spell again or anew.
- respirable — capable of being respired.
- 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.
- responsion — the act of responding or answering.
- responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rheopectic — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
- rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
- rhizophore — a downward-growing stem in moss that forms roots
- rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface
- 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.
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- rice paper — a thin paper made from the straw of rice, as in China.
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- 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.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.