10-letter words containing r, o, c, a, i
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recitation — an act of reciting.
- recitativo — recitative2 .
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- 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.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- rio branco — a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.
- rio cuarto — a city in central Argentina.
- roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- romancical — relating to or dealing with romance
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- saccharoid — having a granular texture like that of loaf sugar.
- sacroiliac — the joint where the sacrum and ilium meet.
- salicornia — any chenopodiaceous plant of the genus Salicornia, of seashores and salt marshes: includes glasswort
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scansorial — capable of or adapted for climbing, as the feet of certain birds, lizards, etc.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrap iron — old iron to be remelted or reworked.
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- social war — Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sociocracy — a theoretical system of government in which the interests of all members of society are served equally.
- sociodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which each patient assumes and dramatizes a variety of roles, usually focusing on problems and conflicts arising in group situations.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spec ratio — (benchmark) Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.