8-letter words containing y, e, r
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- re-apply — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- re-edify — to edify again or rebuild
- re-enjoy — to experience with joy; take pleasure in: He enjoys Chinese food.
- re-entry — an act of reentering.
- readably — easy or interesting to read.
- readerly — pertaining to or suitable for a reader
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- recently — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- recodify — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- reconvey — to convey again.
- recovery — an act of recovering.
- rectally — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- recycler — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- red army — the Soviet army.
- red clay — a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.
- red tory — a Conservative who holds liberal or mildly socialist views on certain fiscal and social issues
- red-eyed — having bloodshot eyes, esp due to crying or tiredness
- redbelly — any of various animals having red underparts, esp the char or the redbelly turtle
- redeploy — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
- reemploy — to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.
- refinery — an establishment for refining something, as metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- reflexly — in a reflex manner
- regality — royalty, sovereignty, or kingship.
- registry — Windows Registry
- reinjury — an injury which follows a previous injury to the same place in the body
- relaying — re-lay.
- relexify — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- reliably — that may be relied on or trusted; dependable in achievement, accuracy, honesty, etc.: reliable information.
- remodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- remotely — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- renotify — to notify again
- rent boy — A rent boy is a boy or young man who has sex with men for money.
- reoccupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- repacify — to pacify again
- repurify — to purify again, make pure again
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- rest day — a holiday; a day when people do not have to work
- resupply — provide with sth
- resurvey — a new survey.
- retiracy — retirement
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
- reverify — to verify again
- revisory — pertaining to or for the purpose of revision.
- revivify — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- reynolds — a male given name, form of Reginald.
- rezaiyeh — a city in NW Iran.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- rheopexy — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.