10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- resistible — that can be resisted.
- resistless — irresistible.
- resistojet — a jet engine that obtains its thrust from a propellant heated by a resistance device using electrical power
- resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- resonating — to resound.
- resonation — to resound.
- resorption — the destruction, disappearance, or dissolution of a tissue or part by biochemical activity, as the loss of bone or of tooth dentin.
- respecting — regarding; concerning.
- respective — pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular: I will now discuss the respective merits of the candidates.
- respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
- restituted — to make restitution.
- restitutor — a person who makes restitution
- restrained — characterized by restraint: The actor gave a restrained performance.
- restrainer — a person or thing that restrains.
- restricted — confined; limited.
- restrictor — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- retentions — profits earned by a company but not distributed as dividends; retained earnings
- retransmit — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- retreatism — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- retreatist — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- retrovirus — any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses having a helical envelope and containing an enzyme that allows for a reversal of genetic transcription, from RNA to DNA rather than the usual DNA to RNA, the newly transcribed viral DNA being incorporated into the host cell's DNA strand for the production of new RNA retroviruses: the family includes the AIDS virus and certain oncogene-carrying viruses implicated in various cancers.
- reunionist — a person who advocates the reunion of the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revestiary — the part of a church or temple where the clergy's gowns and other articles are kept; vestry
- revisitant — revisiting or returning to a place
- revitalise — to give new life to.
- revivalist — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
- 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.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- rhinestone — an artificial gem of paste, often cut to resemble a diamond.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ridgecrest — a town in central California.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- rinderpest — an acute, usually fatal infectious disease of cattle, sheep, etc., caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus and characterized by high fever, diarrhea, and lesions of the skin and mucous membranes.
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
- ringmaster — a person in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
- ripsnorter — something or someone exceedingly strong or violent: a ripsnorter of a gale.
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- roisterers — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- roisterous — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.