13-letter words starting with r
- recontaminate — to contaminate (an area, person, hands, etc) again
- reconvergence — an act or instance of converging.
- record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
- record dealer — a person who buys and sells vinyl records
- record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
- record player — phonograph.
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- recovery room — a room near the operating or delivery room of a hospital, equipped with specific apparatus and staffed by specially trained personnel for emergencies, used for the recovery from anesthesia of a postoperative or obstetrical patient before being brought to a hospital room or ward.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- recreationist — a person who advocates that national parks, seashores, lakes, etc., be preserved in their natural state for recreation, farming, or scientific study.
- recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
- recrudescence — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
- recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
- rectification — the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.
- rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
- rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
- red deer lake — a lake in Manitoba, Canada
- red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
- red river war — a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.
- red sea bream — either of two fish of the family Sparidae, Pagrus major and Pagellus bogaraveo. Pagrus major is a popular food fish in Japan, Taiwan and Spain
- red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
- red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- redisposition — the withdrawal and redistribution of armed forces with the aim of more effective use
- redissolution — the act of redissolving
- redistricting — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- reduced level — lesser degree or amount
- reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.