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Words containing e, r

6 letter words containing e, r

  • de-rat — to remove rats from (a place)
  • re-run — If you say that something is a re-run of a particular event or experience, you mean that what happens now is very similar to what happened in the past.

7 letter words containing e, r

  • de-rezz — (jargon)   /dee-rez'/ (Or "derez") "de-resolve" via the film "Tron". 1. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static and then dissolving. Occasionally used of a person who seems to have suddenly "fuzzed out" mentally rather than physically. Usage: extremely silly, also rare. This verb was actually invented as *fictional* hacker jargon, and adopted in a spirit of irony by real hackers years after the fact. 2. The Macintosh resource decompiler. On a Macintosh, many program structures (including the code itself) are managed in small segments of the program file known as "resources"; "Rez" and "DeRez" are a pair of utilities for compiling and decompiling resource files. Thus, decompiling a resource is "derezzing". Usage: very common.
  • de-risk — to eliminate risk (from)
  • re-read — to read (something) again.
  • re-roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.

8 letter words containing e, r

  • blue-red — a color about midway between blue and red in the spectrum; purplish.
  • e-reader — a portable electronic device used for reading books and other text materials that are in digital form.
  • re-route — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
  • rose-red — of a pure purplish-red colour
  • tide-rip — a rip caused by conflicting tidal currents or by a tidal current crossing a rough bottom.

9 letter words containing e, r

  • bare-root — of or relating to a tree or shrub prepared for transplanting by having all or most of the soil removed from about its roots.
  • close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
  • hate-read — to read (a blog, newspaper, etc.) that one professes to dislike, often with the intention to mock or criticize.
  • nose-ring — a ring inserted in the nose of an animal, to facilitate leading it.
  • pipe-rack — offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.

10 letter words containing e, r

  • blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
  • force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
  • free-range — (of livestock and domestic poultry) permitted to graze or forage for grain, etc., rather than being confined to a feedlot or a small enclosure: a free-range pig.
  • free-rider — Informal. a person who obtains something without effort or cost.
  • horse-race — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.

11 letter words containing e, r

  • bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • double-reed — of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.

12 letter words containing e, r

  • close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
  • off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
  • papoose-root — the blue cohosh. See under cohosh.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.

13 letter words containing e, r

  • acetate-rayon — Chemistry. a salt or ester of acetic acid.
  • bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
  • collate-rally — security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • e-recruitment — the practice of using Internet or electronic resources to recruit new employees, as by searching online résumé databases.

14 letter words containing e, r

  • bicycle-racing — the act or sport of riding or traveling by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
  • bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • change-ringing — the art of bell-ringing in which a set of bells is rung in an established order which is then changed
  • fire-resistant — totally or almost totally unburnable.
  • fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.

15 letter words containing e, r

  • adjustable-rate — designating or of a debt obligation, esp. a mortgage on real property, having terms which allow the interest rate to change over time
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • flame-retardant — Flame-retardant is the same as fire-retardant.
  • pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • pre-renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

16 letter words containing e, r

  • camborne-redruth — a former (until 1974) urban district in SW England, in Cornwall: formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of the neighbouring towns of Camborne and Redruth. Pop: 39 936 (2001)
  • cock-of-the-rock — either of two tropical South American birds, Rupicola rupicola or R. peruviana, having an erectile crest and (in the male) a brilliant red or orange plumage: family Cotingidae (cotingas)
  • crease-resistant — (of a fabric, garment, etc) designed to remain uncreased when subjected to wear or use
  • machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • negative-raising — a rule that moves a negative element out of the complement clause of certain verbs, such as think, into the main clause, as in the derivation of He doesn't think that he'll finish

17 letter words containing e, r

  • pre-revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.

18 letter words containing e, r

  • middle-of-the-road — favoring, following, or characterized by an intermediate position between two extremes, especially in politics; moderate.

20 letter words containing e, r

  • call-by-value-result — An argument passing convention where the actual argument is a variable V whose value is copied to a local variable L inside the called function or procedure. If the procedure modifies L, these changes will not affect V, which may also be in scope inside the procedure, until the procedure returns when the final value of L is copied to V. Under call-by-reference changes to L would affect V immediately. Used, for example, by BBC BASIC V on the Acorn Archimedes.
  • theater-in-the-round — arena theater.
  • theatre-in-the-round — a theatre with seats arranged around a central acting area

21 letter words containing e, r

  • ring-around-the-rosey — a children's game in which the players sing while going around in a circle and squat when the lyrics “all fall down” are sung.
  • the-ring-the-nibelung — Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas: Das Rheingold (completed 1869), Die Walküre (completed 1870), Siegfried (completed 1876), and Götterdämmerung (completed 1876): the cycle was first performed at Bayreuth, 1876.

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