7-letter words containing y, r
- reapply — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- recarry — to carry or convey (someone or something) back again
- recency — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- rectify — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- rectory — a rector's house; parsonage.
- recycle — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- red bay — an evergreen tree, Persea borbonia, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having faintly bluish-green leaves and blue or blue-black, red-stalked fruit, grown as an ornamental.
- red dye — any of several artificial red pigments added to cosmetics or food: dyes number two and number four are banned by the FDA as possible carcinogenic additives
- red eye — the condition of having bloodshot eyes, as from eyestrain or lack of sleep.
- red-eye — the condition of having bloodshot eyes, as from eyestrain or lack of sleep.
- redying — a coloring material or matter.
- reedley — a town in central California.
- reentry — an act of reentering.
- regally — of or relating to a king; royal: the regal power.
- regency — the office, jurisdiction, or control of a regent or body of regents exercising the ruling power during the minority, absence, or disability of a sovereign.
- rekeyed — to fit with different pins and a different key.
- relayed — a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.
- relying — to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon): You can rely on her work.
- remarry — get married again
- remercy — thanks; gratitude
- replevy — to recover possession of by replevin.
- respray — coat again with spray paint
- restudy — to study again
- restyle — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- retally — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- retiary — using a net or any entangling device.
- rettery — a place where materials such as flax are retted
- reunify — bring together again
- revelry — reveling; boisterous festivity: Their revelry could be heard across the river.
- reymont — Władysław Stanisław [vwah-dee-swahf stah-nee-swahf] /vwɑˈdi swɑf stɑˈni swɑf/ (Show IPA), ("Ladislas Regmont") 1868–1925, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1924.
- reynard — a name given to the fox, originally in the medieval beast epic Reynard the Fox.
- reynaud — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1878–1966, French statesman: premier 1940.
- reynold — a male given name, form of Reginald.
- reynosa — a city in N Tamaulipas, in E Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
- rhatany — either of two South American shrubs belonging to the genus Krameria, of the legume family, K. tiandra (knotty rhatany or Peruvian rhatany) or K. argentea (Brazilian rhatany or Pará rhatany)
- rhyming — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- rhymist — a person who rhymes
- rhythms — movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
- rhytina — a member of an extinct genus of mammals that lived in water, also known as Steller's sea cow
- rib eye — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- rickety — likely to fall or collapse; shaky: a rickety chair.
- ridgway — Matthew Bunker, 1895–1993, U.S. army general: chief of staff 1953–55.
- rifaiya — a band of dervishes who achieved ecstasy during prayer by violent body movements and self-inflicted pain: formed in the 12th century; outlawed in 1925.
- riflery — the art, practice, or sport of shooting at targets with rifles.
- rightly — in accordance with truth or fact; correctly: to see rightly; to understand rightly.
- rigidly — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
- rivalry — the action, position, or relation of a rival or rivals; competition: rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
- roadway — the land over which a road is built; a road together with the land at its edge.
- rob roy — a manhattan made with Scotch whisky.
- robbery — the act, the practice, or an instance of robbing.