10-letter words containing re
- dress-down — pertaining to or being a policy that allows employees to dress less formally than usual: dress-down days during the summer.
- dressed up — in evening wear
- dressguard — an attachment for a wheel or cycle that prevents damage or the dirtying of clothes
- dressiness — The characteristic of being dressy.
- dressmaker — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- drop press — drop forge.
- drug store — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drugstores — Plural form of drugstore.
- dry freeze — the occurrence of freezing temperatures without the formation of hoarfrost.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- eared seal — any seal of the family Otariidae, comprising the sea lions and fur seals, having external ears and flexible hind flippers that are used when moving about on land: the front flippers are used in swimming.
- earth wire — a wire connecting an appliance to earth
- eau claire — a city in W Wisconsin.
- ecotecture — Ecotecture is a type of architecture with designs based on ecological principles such as sustainability and environmental impact.
- ecuadorean — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- efferently — conveying or conducting away from an organ or part (opposed to afferent).
- effloresce — to burst into bloom; blossom.
- eightscore — one hundred and sixty
- eirenicons — Plural form of eirenicon.
- elbow-rest — something designed for resting one's elbow on
- embittered — Simple past tense and past participle of embitter.
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- embrasures — Plural form of embrasure.
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- emulatress — a female imitator or emulator
- en arrière — behind
- enamelware — Enameled kitchenware.
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- encincture — a cincture
- enciphered — Simple past tense and past participle of encipher.
- enclosures — Plural form of enclosure.
- encoignure — an ornamental piece of furniture designed to fit in a corner
- encopresis — Involuntary defecation, especially associated with emotional disturbance or psychiatric disorder.
- encumbered — Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
- end result — product created by a process
- endangered — (of a species) Seriously at risk of extinction.
- endangerer — a person who puts someone or something at risk
- endeavored — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavor.
- endosphere — (biology) All the endophytes of a plant.
- endospores — Plural form of endospore.
- endurement — (obsolete) endurance.
- enfestered — festered
- engendered — Simple past tense and past participle of engender.