12-letter words starting with r
- retractively — in a retractive manner
- retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- retrenchment — the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
- retrievement — a retrieval
- retrocession — to cede back: to retrocede a territory.
- retrocognate — being or pertaining to memory or extrasensory perception of past events.
- retrodiction — the act or result of retrodicting
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- retroflexion — a bending backward.
- retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
- retromingent — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- retroserrate — having retrorse teeth or barbs.
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- returned man — a member of the armed forces discharged in Canada after service overseas.
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- revenge porn — sexually suggestive images of someone, typically a former romantic partner, that are posted online or otherwise shared without the person's consent.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
- reverse arms — to turn one's arms upside down, esp as a token of mourning
- reverse dive — any dive in which the diver leaves the board facing the water, then rotates in the air to enter the water facing the board.
- reverse gear — The reverse gear of a vehicle is the gear which you use in order to make the vehicle go backwards.
- reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
- reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
- reverse turn — a manoeuvre which makes a vehicle move backwards and to the left or right
- reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- reviviscence — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
- rhadamanthus — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhadamanthys — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
- rheomorphism — the liquefaction of rock, which results in its flowing and intruding into surrounding rocks
- rheoreceptor — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.