6-letter words starting with re
- reccos — (especially in British military use) reconnaissance: a pilot who spent three months on recce.
- recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
- recent — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- recept — an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- recess — temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
- rechar — an EU funding programme providing grants for the reconversion or development of depressed mining areas
- rechew — to chew (food, etc) again
- rechie — smoky
- rechip — to put a new chip into (a stolen mobile phone) so it can be reused
- recife — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- recipe — suspension
- recite — to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner: to recite a lesson.
- reckan — a chain, hook or bar for hanging a pot over a fire
- recked — to have care, concern, or regard (often followed by of, with, or a clause).
- reckon — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reclad — to dress; attire.
- recoal — to supply (an engine, fire, etc) or (of an engine, fire, etc) to be loaded with fresh coal
- recoat — to coat (something) again or with a new coat of paint, varnish, etc
- recode — a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message: Morse code.
- recoil — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
- recoin — a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- recomb — to comb again
- recook — to cook (something) again
- recopy — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- record — to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote.
- recork — the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
- recost — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- recoup — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- rectal — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- recti- — straight or right
- recto- — rectum, rectum and
- rector — a member of the clergy in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- rectum — the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- rectus — any of several straight muscles, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye, etc.
- recure — to recover
- recuse — to reject or challenge (a judge or juror) as disqualified to act, especially because of interest or bias.
- redact — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redate — to change the date of (something)
- redbay — a small tree which grows in the southern United States and whose inner wood is of a dark red colour
- redbud — an American tree, Cercis canadensis, of the legume family, resembling the Eurasian Judas tree and having small, budlike, pink flowers: the state tree of Oklahoma.
- redbug — chigger (def 1).
- redcap — a baggage porter at a railroad station.
- redcar — a town in NE England, in Redcar and Cleveland district, on the North Sea.
- redded — to put in order; tidy: to redd a room for company.
- redden — to make or cause to become red.
- redder — any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
- reddle — ruddle.
- redeal — to deal again in a card game
- redear — a variety of sunfish with a red flash above the gills
- redeem — to buy or pay off; clear by payment: to redeem a mortgage.