9-letter words containing s, e, r, n
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- resharpen — to sharpen again
- reshingle — to put new shingles on; shingle again
- residence — the place, especially the house, in which a person lives or resides; dwelling place; home: Their residence is in New York City.
- residency — residence (def 3).
- residents — a person who resides in a place.
- resignees — a person who has resigned or is about to resign.
- resigning — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- resilient — springing back; rebounding.
- resinlike — resembling a resin, having characteristics of a resin
- resinosis — excessive production and/or outflow of resin in conifers due to disease or damage
- resistant — resisting.
- resisting — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- reskinned — to replace or repair the exterior surface or coating of: The space shuttle had to be reskinned before returning to service.
- resnatron — a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency.
- resoiling — to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- resorting — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- resounded — to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
- responded — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- responder — a person or thing that responds.
- responser — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responses — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- responsor — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- restaging — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- restained — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- restating — to state again or in a new way.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- restringe — to restrict, contract, or confine
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- resulting — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- resurgent — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
- resuspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- retinitis — inflammation of the retina.
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- revenuers — an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, especially one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor.
- reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rightness — correctness or accuracy.
- rigidness — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
- ringsider — a spectator at or near ringside, as of a boxing match or a nightclub performance.
- rinseable — able to be rinsed