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13-letter words containing t, e, r, s, i, a

  • raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
  • raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
  • realistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • reassignation — an appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
  • reassociation — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
  • recalcitrants — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
  • recessionista — a person whose clothes, whether cheap, second-hand, or suitably subdued, are considered appropriate to an economic downturn
  • recitationist — someone who gives recitations
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • recreationist — a person who advocates that national parks, seashores, lakes, etc., be preserved in their natural state for recreation, farming, or scientific study.
  • recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
  • redesignation — an act of designating.
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
  • reinstatement — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
  • reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • relay station — a radio station that receives radio signals and retransmits them, in order to extend their range
  • releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
  • release print — Movies. print (def 31).
  • released time — time or a period allotted to a teacher apart from normal duties for a special activity, as personal research.
  • remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • rensselaerite — a white or yellow compact variety of talc, used for ornaments
  • repristinated — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
  • resectability — the state of being resectable
  • resegregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
  • residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • restandardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • resting place — grave
  • restoratively — in a restorative manner
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
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