10-letter words containing r, a, c, e, s
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radarscope — the viewing screen of radar equipment.
- radicalise — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- raise cain — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- rat cheese — inexpensive cheese, especially domestic cheddar.
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- reincrease — to increase again
- renascence — Renaissance.
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- researched — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- researcher — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- researches — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- resectable — able to be resected
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- respectant — aspectant.
- resurfaced — to give a new surface to.
- resurfacer — a machine or tool used for resurfacing
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- root cause — origin
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- saccharase — sucrase
- saccharate — a salt of saccharic acid.
- saccharide — an organic compound containing a sugar or sugars.
- saccharine — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- saccharize — to convert into sugar; saccharify.
- saccharose — sucrose.