10-letter words containing r, e, s, o, t, i
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- resistojet — a jet engine that obtains its thrust from a propellant heated by a resistance device using electrical power
- resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- resonating — to resound.
- resonation — to resound.
- resorption — the destruction, disappearance, or dissolution of a tissue or part by biochemical activity, as the loss of bone or of tooth dentin.
- respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
- restitutor — a person who makes restitution
- restrictor — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- retentions — profits earned by a company but not distributed as dividends; retained earnings
- retrovirus — any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses having a helical envelope and containing an enzyme that allows for a reversal of genetic transcription, from RNA to DNA rather than the usual DNA to RNA, the newly transcribed viral DNA being incorporated into the host cell's DNA strand for the production of new RNA retroviruses: the family includes the AIDS virus and certain oncogene-carrying viruses implicated in various cancers.
- reunionist — a person who advocates the reunion of the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
- 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.
- rhinestone — an artificial gem of paste, often cut to resemble a diamond.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
- ripsnorter — something or someone exceedingly strong or violent: a ripsnorter of a gale.
- roisterers — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- roisterous — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- rootsiness — the quality of being rootsy
- roscoelite — a brown variety of muscovite in which some aluminum is replaced by vanadium.
- rotisserie — a small broiler with a motor-driven spit, for barbecuing fowl, beef, etc.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- roystering — roister.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- senatorial — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a senator or senate: senatorial oratory.
- senioritis — Informal: Facetious. a decline in motivation or academic performance that supposedly afflicts some seniors in high school, especially in their last term.
- separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- serotinous — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- setiferous — having setae or bristles.
- setigerous — having setae or bristles.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
- short time — a period or schedule during which the number of working hours is reduced: The recession has put most of the manufacturing plants on short time.
- short-life — not designed to last
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- siderolite — stony-iron meteorite.