13-letter words that end in re
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- porte-cochere — a covered carriage entrance leading into a courtyard.
- power failure — electricity outage
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
- raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
- remand centre — correctional facility
- remanufacture — to refurbish (a used product) by renovating and reassembling its components: to remanufacture a vacuum cleaner.
- renal failure — a condition in which the kidneys fail to function adequately
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- root pressure — osmotic pressure within the cells of a root system that causes sap to rise through a plant stem to the leaves.
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- saint-nazaire — a seaport in W France, on the Loire estuary.
- sanitary ware — plumbing fixtures, as sinks or toilet bowls, made of ceramic material or enameled metal.
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
- self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
- ship-to-shore — operating between a ship and the shore: a ship-to-shore radio.
- siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- snowshoe hare — a large-footed North American hare, Lepus americanus, that is white in winter and dark brown in summer.
- somersetshire — a county in SW England. 1335 sq. mi. (3455 sq. km).
- spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
- sports centre — a place where people take part in sports
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- star sapphire — a sapphire, cut cabochon, exhibiting asterism in the form of a colorless six-rayed star.
- steak tartare — tartar steak.
- stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
- stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
- subliterature — writing below the standards of literature as an art form.
- submillimetre — a microscopic division of a millimetre
- subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
- super-culture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- surplus store — a shop that sells used items, or items previously purchased but unused, and no longer needed. The items are often military, government or industrial excess
- tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
- tahrir square — a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning ‘liberation’, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak
- tertiary care — the aspect of in-patient care dealing with illnesses or conditions requiring specialized techniques, as coronary artery bypass surgery, renal hemodialysis, and treatment of severe burns.
- there you are — an expression used when handing a person something requested or desired
- thereinbefore — before that
- time exposure — a long exposure in which the shutter is opened and closed by hand or by a mechanism other than the automatic mechanism of the shutter.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- tortoise-core — Archaeology. a late Lower and Middle Paleolithic stone core characteristic of the Levalloisian tradition of toolmaking, having a rounded top and flattish bottom and prepared in advance to permit the removal of a single ellipsoid flake with one blow from a stone hammer.
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- tubeless tire — a rubber balloon tire made as a single piece without an inner tube.
- tubeless tyre — a pneumatic tyre in which the outer casing makes an airtight seal with the rim of the wheel so that an inner tube is unnecessary