9-letter words containing t, r, o, c
- reconduct — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- reconnect — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recontact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- recontour — the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- reconvert — to convert again.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recordist — Also called sound recordist. Movies. the person in charge of sound recording on a film set. Compare mixer.
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recounted — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recounter — someone who recounts or narrates a story
- recreator — to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
- rectocele — a hernia of the rectum into the vagina.
- rectorate — the office, dignity, or term of a rector.
- rectoress — a female rector
- red count — a count of the red cells in a person's blood.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- refectory — a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- reflector — a person or thing that reflects.
- refractor — a person or thing that refracts.
- rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
- reliction — the process by which water recedes over time, changing the waterline and leaving land permanently exposed
- relocatee — someone who is relocated or moved to a new location
- relocator — a program designed to transfer files from one computer to another
- rencontre — rencounter.
- reproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- resolicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- retractor — a person or thing that retracts.
- retrocede — to go back; recede; retire.
- retrodict — to make estimates about (the past) using information from the present or other events from the past. Used in fields such as archaeology, climatology, and financial analysis
- retroject — to throw backwards
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rh factor — any of a type of specific antigen present on the surface of red blood cells, persons having inherited such antigens being designated Rh+ (Rh positive) and persons lacking them, a much smaller group, being designated Rh− (Rh negative) blood of Rh− persons is incompatible with Rh+ blood because of antibody reaction, and an Rh− woman who bears an Rh+ baby will have formed antibodies to the fetal blood that, unless removed from her bloodstream by apheresis in a subsequent pregnancy, will be carried across the placenta and destroy red blood cells of the next Rh+ fetus, resulting in erythroblastosis in the newborn.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rhyolitic — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- roadcraft — the skills and knowledge used to drive road vehicles
- rochester — John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier.
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- rock bolt — a steel or fiberglass bolt inserted and anchored in a hole drilled in rock to prevent caving of the roof of a tunnel or subterranean chamber.
- rock boot — a tight-fitting rock-climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and smooth rubber sole, designed to give good grip on small holds
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock star — a rock-'n'-roll star or celebrity.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.