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8-letter words that end in re

  • quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
  • reassure — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • recentre — to move (something) to or put (something) at the centre again
  • red fire — any of various combustible preparations, as one containing strontium nitrate, that burn with a vivid red light: used chiefly in pyrotechnic displays and in signaling.
  • red wire — (jargon, hardware)   (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
  • redshare — any red algae, esp one belonging to the genus Polysiphonia
  • refigure — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
  • reinjure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
  • reinsure — to insure again.
  • renature — to restore (a denatured substance) to its former, natural state.
  • resecure — to secure again; make secure again
  • retepore — any bryozoan of the family Reteporidae which forms colonies that have a networklike structure.
  • rexxware — An implementation of REXX for Novell NetWare produced by Simware, Inc. in January 1994. It is used by LAN managers to automate LAN administration chores on a Novell NetWare server. As a scripting language, REXXWARE is an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module) that runs on Novell NetWare servers. It includes more than 275 NetWare-specific functions, plus the standard REXX keywords, instructions, built-in functions, flow-control, tracing, and error trapping and recovery features. REXXWARE is certified by Novell for use with NetWare. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • rim-fire — (of a cartridge) having the primer in a rim encircling the base. Compare center-fire (def 1).
  • roundure — roundness
  • rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
  • sagamore — (among the American Indians of New England) a chief or leader.
  • samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
  • sancerre — a dry white wine from the Loire valley region of France.
  • sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
  • saussure — Ferdinand de [French fer-dee-nahn duh] /French fɛr diˈnɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1857–1913, Swiss linguist.
  • scissure — a longitudinal cleft or opening.
  • sea fire — a bioluminescent glow produced by phosphorescent marine organisms.
  • sea hare — any gastropod of the order Aplysiacea, comprising large marine sluglike mollusks with a reduced, internal shell.
  • seashore — land along the sea or ocean.
  • sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
  • sixscore — one hundred and twenty
  • skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
  • slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
  • so there — You can add 'so there' to what you are saying to show that you will not change your mind about a decision you have made, even though the person you are talking to disagrees with you.
  • softcore — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
  • software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
  • solidare — an old coin
  • spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
  • spunware — objects formed by spinning.
  • stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
  • subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
  • suo jure — in one's own right.
  • surefire — sure to work; foolproof: a surefire moneymaking scheme.
  • sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
  • t square — a T -shaped ruler, used primarily in mechanical drawing, having a short crosspiece that slides along the edge of the drawing board as a guide to the perpendicular longer section in making parallel lines, right angles, etc., and as a support for triangles.
  • t-square — a T -shaped ruler, used primarily in mechanical drawing, having a short crosspiece that slides along the edge of the drawing board as a guide to the perpendicular longer section in making parallel lines, right angles, etc., and as a support for triangles.
  • tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
  • te score — Tertiary Entrance score: a score based on a pupil's performance in secondary school that determines his or her prospects of gaining entrance to tertiary educational institutions
  • telomere — the segment of DNA that occurs at the ends of chromosomes.
  • the lyre — the constellation Lyra
  • theodore — pope a.d. 897.
  • tincture — Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
  • to spare — more than is required
  • toleware — articles made of tole.
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