10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- rabbitries — Plural form of rabbitry.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- ratio test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the absolute value of the ratio of the term succeeding the n th term to the n th term approaches a limit less than 1 as n increases without bound.
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- rear sight — the sight nearest the breech of a firearm.
- reastiness — rancidness
- rechristen — to christen or baptize (someone) again
- recidivist — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- rediscount — to discount again.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- redistrict — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
- redshifted — (of radiation) having undergone a redshift.
- reestimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
- registered — recorded, as in a register or book; enrolled.
- registerer — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- registrant — a person who registers or is registered.
- registrary — (at Cambridge University) a registrar
- registrate — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- reichstein — Tadeus [tah-dey-oo s] /tɑˈdeɪ ʊs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1996, Swiss chemist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize in medicine 1950.
- reinspirit — to give a new spirit to; inspirit anew
- reinstated — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- reinstruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- reinterest — the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
- relativise — to regard as or make relative.
- relativism — any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their environments.
- relativist — an adherent or advocate of relativism or of the principle of relativity.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- remediates — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- renaissant — renascent.
- reposition — the act of depositing or storing.
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- requesting — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- requisites — required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
- reregister — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- rescrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- residenter — an inhabitant, resident
- resighting — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- resignment — the act of resigning; resignation
- resin duct — a tube or duct in a woody stem or a leaf, especially in conifers, lined with glandular epithelium that secretes resins.