11-letter words starting with r
- reascension — the process or act of reascending
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reasonings' — the act or process of a person who reasons.
- reassertion — a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason: a mere assertion; an unwarranted assertion.
- reassociate — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- reassurance — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- reattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
- rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- rebroadcast — to broadcast again from the same station.
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebukefully — in a rebukeful manner
- recalculate — to calculate again, especially for the purpose of finding an error or confirming a previous computation.
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- recalibrate — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- recall slip — a printed piece of paper sent by library staff to a borrower's home address to remind them that a book is overdue
- recantation — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- recarburize — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
- receivables — the part of the assets of a business represented by accounts due for payment
- receptively — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- receptivity — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessional — of or relating to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service.
- rechallenge — a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc.
- rechartered — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- recipe book — a book containing lists of ingredients and directions for making different food dishes
- reciprocant — a differential invariant
- reciprocate — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reciprocity — a reciprocal state or relation.
- recirculate — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reclaimable — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- reclaimably — in a reclaimable manner
- reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
- reclearance — the revalidation of a person's security clearance, usually done periodically for those handling top-secret material.
- reclination — to lean or lie back; rest in a recumbent position.
- recluseness — the fact or condition of being solitary or recluse; reclusion
- reclusively — in a reclusive manner, as or like a recluse; reclusely
- recognition — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- recognizing — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recollected — calm; composed.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- recommended — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- recommender — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- recondition — to restore to a good or satisfactory condition; repair; make over.
- reconducted — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reconnoiter — to inspect, observe, or survey (the enemy, the enemy's strength or position, a region, etc.) in order to gain information for military purposes.