12-letter words containing r, e
- ascertaining — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ash-coloured — silver-grey in colour
- asking price — The asking price of something is the price which the person selling it says that they want for it, although they may accept less.
- asparaginase — an enzyme used in treating leukaemia
- aspect ratio — the ratio of width to height of the picture on a television or cinema screen
- aspiringness — the condition of being aspiring
- assay groove — (in silverwork) a furrow left in a piece by the digging out of metal for assay.
- assertations — Plural form of assertation.
- assessorship — the occupation, post or duties of a person who assesses, advises, or estimates
- asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
- asseveration — the act of asseverating.
- asseverative — characterized by or relating to solemn declaration or affirmation
- assortedness — the position of being sorted, grouped or harmonized with, well or badly, or provided with a good or bad assortment or mixture
- asteriskless — having no asterisk
- astigmatizer — a cylindrical lens used in a rangefinder to draw out the point image of a point source into a line.
- astigmometer — an apparatus for measuring the degree of astigmatism.
- astral plane — a plane of existence inhabited by astral bodies
- astringently — In the manner of an astringent.
- astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
- astrogeology — the study of the structure, composition, and history of other planets and other bodies in the solar system
- asymmetrical — Something that is asymmetrical has two sides or halves that are different in shape, size, or style.
- asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- at a premium — If something is at a premium, it is wanted or needed, but is difficult to get or achieve.
- at a stretch — with some difficulty; by making a special effort
- at a venture — at random; by chance
- at any price — If you want something at any price, you are determined to get it, even if unpleasant things happen as a result.
- at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
- at the press — being printed
- at the ready — If you have something at the ready, you have it in a position where it can be quickly and easily used.
- at the worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
- at this rate — If you say that at this rate something bad or extreme will happen, you mean that it will happen if things continue to develop as they have been doing.
- atharva-veda — the fourth and latest Veda, largely consisting of priestly spells and incantations
- atheoretical — having no connection with and not founded on theory
- atheromatous — a sebaceous cyst.
- atholl brose — a mixture of whisky and honey left to ferment before consumption
- atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
- atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
- atom smasher — accelerator (sense 3)
- atomic power — nuclear power.
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
- attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- au contraire — on the contrary
- auctioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of auctioneer.
- auger effect — the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell
- auger shower — a shower of electrons, photons, etc. resulting from the collision of primary cosmic rays with atomic nuclei in the atmosphere
- aurene glass — an iridescent American art glass colored gold and blue.
- auroral zone — the region surrounding the north or south geomagnetic pole in which the auroral phenomena take place.
- austronesian — of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages