9-letter words containing r, e, n, u
- reducting — to reduce.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- redundant — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
- refluence — flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
- refounder — a person who refounds
- refulgent — shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.
- refurnish — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- reguerdon — a reward
- rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
- reinjured — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- reinsurer — A reinsurer is an insurance company that insures the risks of other insurance companies.
- relaunder — to launder again
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- remindful — reviving memory of something; reminiscent.
- renifleur — a person who is sexually aroused or gratified by odors.
- renounced — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- requicken — to restore or come back to life or vigour
- requiring — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
- requiting — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- requoting — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- rerouting — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- rerunning — to run again.
- resentful — full of or marked by resentment.
- resounded — to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- resulting — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- resurgent — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
- resuspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- retinular — of or relating to the retinula
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- reubenite — a member of the tribe of Reuben.
- revenuers — an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, especially one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- ring true — sound or seem genuine
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- rotundate — rounded
- roughened — made rough
- roughhewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
- roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- round-eye — a term used by Asians to refer to a white person of European origin.
- roundelay — a song in which a phrase, line, or the like, is continually repeated.
- roundhead — a member or adherent of the Parliamentarians or Puritan party during the civil wars of the 17th century (so called in derision by the Cavaliers because they wore their hair cut short).