13-letter words starting with r
- repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- reporter gene — a gene with an easily recognizable phenotype, used in analysing the regulation of gene structures
- repositioning — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- representamen — (in semiotics) a sign or signifier, whether physical or otherwise, which points to an object
- representment — an act of representing or an instance thereof
- repressionist — an advocate of repression; someone who argues for or holds to repressive measures
- repristinated — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reprographics — reprography.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- republicanism — republican government.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- republication — publication anew.
- repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- requisitioner — the act of requiring or demanding.
- rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
- research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
- research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- resegregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- reserve price — floor price.
- reserve-grade — denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club
- reserved list — a list of retired naval, army, or air-force officers available for recall to active service in an emergency
- reserved word — a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- resistiveness — the quality or state of being resistive or offering resistance
- resource fork — Macintosh file system
- respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
- response time — Psychology. the time consumed in making a response.
- restandardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- restauranteur — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- resting place — grave
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- resystematize — to systematize again