12-letter words containing r, e
- aggregations — Plural form of aggregation.
- aggressively — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- aggressivity — the state or quality of being aggressive
- aggrievement — the state of being aggrieved
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- agribusiness — Agribusiness is the various businesses that produce, sell, and distribute farm products, especially on a large scale.
- agrichemical — a chemical used in agriculture
- agrobusiness — the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
- agrochemical — a chemical, such as a pesticide, used for agricultural purposes
- agroforester — a person who carries out agroforestry
- agroforestry — a method of farming integrating herbaceous and tree crops
- aide-memoire — An aide-memoire is something such as a list that you use to remind you of something.
- aids-related — caused by or associated with the AIDS virus
- aileron roll — a roll consisting of one or more rotations, usually controlled by the use of ailerons.
- ailurophiles — Plural form of ailurophile.
- ailurophobes — Plural form of ailurophobe.
- air cylinder — a cylinder containing air, esp one fitted with a piston and used for damping purposes
- air disaster — a very serious air crash in which in a lot of people are killed or injured
- air embolism — the presence in the tissues and blood of a gas, such as air or nitrogen bubbles, caused by an injection of air or, in the case of nitrogen, by an abrupt and substantial reduction in the ambient pressure
- air layering — a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing the area with a moist medium, as sphagnum moss, stimulating root formation so that the stem or branch can be removed and grown as an independent plant.
- air mattress — an inflatable mattress or pad, as of plastic or rubber, used for camping, as an extra bed, etc.
- air observer — observer (def 3).
- air pressure — the force of air pressing down on an area
- air purifier — a device which removes pollutants and allergens from the air
- air terminal — An air terminal is a building in which passengers wait before they get on to an aeroplane.
- air-breather — an aircraft, missile, or submarine engine that requires air from the atmosphere for the combustion of its fuel.
- air-sea base — a centre from which military aircraft and naval vessels operate
- airfreighted — Simple past tense and past participle of airfreight.
- airpocalypse — (informal) The presence of dense smog in many parts of China.
- airport code — a three-letter abbreviation of the names of the world's major airports, used especially as an identifier for routing baggage.
- airtightness — the quality of being airtight
- alarm system — a set of electronic devices that trigger an alarm
- alaska range — a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft)
- albert canal — ship canal in Belgium, from Liège to Antwerp: 81 mi (131 km)
- albert speer — Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- alberti bass — a reiterated broken-chord figure used as an accompaniment, especially in 18th-century rococo keyboard music.
- alcohol-free — (of beer or wine) containing only a trace of alcohol
- aldebaranium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for ytterbium.
- aldermanlike — resembling an alderman, esp in being pompous
- alexander ii — 1198–1249, king of Scotland (1214–49), son of William (the Lion)
- alexander iv — (Rinaldo Conti) died 1261, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1254–61.
- alexander vi — original name Rodrigo Borgia. 1431–1503, pope (1492–1503): noted for his extravagance and immorality as well as for his patronage of the arts; father of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, with whom he is said to have committed incest
- alexanderson — Ernst F. W [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1878–1975, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- alexandretta — Iskenderun
- alexandrines — Plural form of alexandrine.
- alexandrinus — the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.
- alexipharmac — an antidote
- alexipharmic — acting as an antidote
- alfred mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.