12-letter words starting with r
- reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
- reserve team — a second team of a sports club, such as a football club, made up of emerging and young players
- reservedness — kept or set apart for some particular use or purpose.
- reset button — control that restores a default setting
- resettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- residentiary — residing; resident.
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- resipiscence — acknowledgment that one has been mistaken
- resoluteness — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resolutioner — a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.
- resort hotel — a hotel in a holiday resort
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourceless — a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- respirometer — an instrument for measuring the extent of respiratory movement.
- respirometry — the branch of medical science dealing with the measurement and analysis of respiration.
- respite care — Respite care is short-term care that is provided for very old or very sick people so that the person who usually cares for them can have a break.
- resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- responseless — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
- ressentiment — any cautious, defeatist, or cynical attitude based on the belief that the individual and human institutions exist in a hostile or indifferent universe or society.
- rest assured — reassurance
- restaurateur — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
- restauration — restoration
- restlessness — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
- restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- restrainings — acts of restraining
- restrengthen — to strengthen again or return to strength
- resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
- resuspension — the act of suspending.
- resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- resynthesize — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- retail price — amount sth costs in shops
- retail trade — shop selling
- retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
- retentionist — a person who advocates the retention of something, esp capital punishment
- reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
- reticulocyte — a very young red blood cell, sampled as a measure of red blood cell formation; reticulated erythrocyte.
- retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
- retiringness — an awkward shyness