11-letter words containing r, e, m, o, t
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reallotment — the act or process of reallotting something
- reanimation — to restore to life; resuscitate.
- reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- record time — very quickly, or in the fastest time recorded
- recountment — the act or process of recounting or reciting something
- reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- reformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- reformulate — to formulate again.
- rejoicement — rejoicing; delight; exultation; gladness; joy
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- remediation — the correction of something bad or defective.
- remigration — the act or process of returning or migrating back to the place of origin
- remonstrant — remonstrating; expostulatory.
- remonstrate — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remote echo — (communications) (Obsolete: "full-duplex") A mode of operation of communicating programs or devices in which the sending system does not display the characters the user enters, but only sends them to the remote system which then "echoes" them back to be displayed to the user. This lets the operator see not only typing errors, but also transmission errors. This is now the usual mode of most systems with remote users. Contrast: local echo.
- remotivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- remunerator — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- reptiliform — having the form or appearance of a reptile
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- river-mouth — an estuary
- roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
- rocket bomb — an aerial bomb equipped with a rocket for added velocity after being dropped from an aircraft.
- rodomontade — vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
- roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- room mother — a female volunteer, often the mother of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- rummage out — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- sclerectomy — excision of part of the sclera.
- sclerometer — any instrument for determining with precision the degree of hardness of a substance, especially a mineral, as by measuring the pressure necessary to pierce or scratch it.
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- seismometer — a seismograph equipped for measuring the direction, intensity, and duration of earthquakes by measuring the actual movement of the ground.
- seismometry — the study of the measurement of earthquakes using a seismometer
- sex tourism — a vacation to a destination that has no restrictions on sexual services or activities, as prostitution.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of