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13-letter words containing r, e, p, l

  • red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • release print — Movies. print (def 31).
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
  • repeater loan — a loan lent to someone who has already borrowed
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
  • reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resting place — grave
  • reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
  • roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • route planner — a book of road maps
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
  • sacral plexus — a nerve network originating from the nerves of the sacral spine and innervating large areas of the lower trunk and legs, especially via the sciatic nerves.
  • salad spinner — a utensil used for drying washed salad or vegetables that consists of a plastic basket inside a plastic bowl. The salad is placed in the basket and the outer bowl is then spun using a device such as a gear-operated handle or pull cord, and this spinning then separates water from the salad.
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
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