9-letter words containing r, a, t, e, m
- primitiae — the first fruits of the harvest
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- protonema — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- rabatment — the act of rotating a plane to align it with another
- racemates — Plural form of racemate.
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rat tamer — a psychologist or psychiatrist
- ratemeter — a device for counting the rate of a particular event, esp for measuring the intensity of radiation
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- real time — If something is done in real time, there is no noticeable delay between the action and its effect or consequence.
- real-time — of or relating to applications in which the computer must respond as rapidly as required by the user or necessitated by the process being controlled.
- reanimate — to restore to life; resuscitate.
- reattempt — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- reformate — the product of the reforming process.
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- rembrandt — (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn or van Ryn) 1606–69, Dutch painter.
- remediate — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- remigrant — a person or thing that returns.
- remigrate — to migrate again, to migrate back, to return
- remnantal — of or relating to a remnant
- remontant — (of certain roses) blooming more than once in a season.
- repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- rest mass — the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body.
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rotameter — an instrument for measuring the rate of flow of a liquid, consisting of a tapered vertical tube in which a small float is forced upward until its weight balances the fluid force.
- rotherham — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- rotterdam — a seaport in SW Netherlands.
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salometer — salinometer.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- satu-mare — a city in NW Romania.
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- semantron — a bar struck instead of a bell in an Orthodox church
- semestral — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- smart set — sophisticated, fashionable people as a group: a shop catering to the smart set.
- smartarse — a clever person, esp one who parades his knowledge offensively