13-letter words starting with r
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
- reappointment — a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
- reappropriate — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- rearrangeable — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- rearrangement — an act of arranging; state of being arranged.
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reassignation — an appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
- reassociation — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
- reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- recalcitrants — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- recalculation — recount, act of computing again
- recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
- recallability — the quality of being recallable
- receding chin — if somebody has a receding chin, it does not stick out and appears to slope backwards, giving the appearance of a weak jawline
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- receiving end — the position in which one is subject to some kind of action or effect, especially an unpleasant one (usually used in the phrase at or on the receiving end): The corporation is on the receiving end of many complaints about its advertising.
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptibility — the quality or condition of being receptible
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessionista — a person whose clothes, whether cheap, second-hand, or suitably subdued, are considered appropriate to an economic downturn
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reciprocation — an act or instance of reciprocating.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- recitationist — someone who gives recitations
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- recollectedly — in a recollected manner
- recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- reconcentrate — to cause (the mind, thoughts, efforts, etc) to be concentrated again on a particular purpose or goal
- reconcilement — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reconnoitring — the activity of obtaining information about the geographical features of a place or about the size and position of an army there
- reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.