13-letter words starting with r
- reexamination — further study or inspection
- refamiliarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- referentially — having reference: referential to something.
- referred pain — pain felt in an area remote from the site of origin.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reflectometer — a device for measuring reflectance.
- reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
- reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- refractometer — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- refrigeration — the act or process of refrigerating.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
- regardless of — in spite of
- regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
- reggio emilia — a city in N Italy.
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- regimentation — the act of regimenting or the state of being regimented.
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
- regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
- regular graph — (mathematics) A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
- rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- reincarnation — the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
- reincorporate — to incorporate again
- reindeer lake — a lake in central Canada, in NE Saskatchewan and NW Manitoba. 2444 sq. mi. (6330 sq. km).
- reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
- reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
- reinnervation — the restoration of a nerve supply by surgery or by regeneration
- reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
- reinstatement — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.