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11-letter words containing r, h, a, e

  • radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
  • radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
  • rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
  • ralph nader — Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
  • ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
  • range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
  • rat-catcher — a person, animal, or thing that catches and exterminates rats, especially a person whose business it is to rid a property of rats.
  • rather than — in preference to
  • rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
  • re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • rechallenge — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
  • rechartered — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
  • red channel — in an airport, the route taken by passengers wishing to declare goods, such as large quantities of tobacco or alcohol
  • reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
  • repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • researchers — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
  • researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • rh negative — See under Rh factor.
  • rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
  • rhabdocoele — any member of the turbellarian flatworm order Neorhabdocoela, comprising both freshwater and marine species, having a simple saclike digestive system.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rhea silvia — a vestal virgin who became the mother, by Mars, of Romulus and Remus.
  • rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • rhinorrhoea — an excessive discharge of mucus from the nose.
  • rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
  • rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
  • rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
  • richard hoe — Richard, 1812–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of printing-press equipment.
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