6-letter words starting with r
- raxing — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- raylet — a small ray
- razeed — a ship, especially a warship, reduced in height by the removal of the upper deck.
- razzed — to deride; make fun of; tease.
- razzia — a plundering raid.
- razzie — any of several gold-plated ornamental raspberries awarded annually in the United States by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for films or acting performances in films considered to be the worst of the year
- rbasic — Database language for Revelation, by Cosmos, Inc. Combines features of BASIC, Pascal and Fortran.
- re-act — to act or perform again.
- re-bid — to bid again, for example in a card game such as bridge
- re-hat — to assign a new designation to (a soldier), for example when installing a national army as UN peacekeepers
- re-lay — to lay again.
- re-let — to make (land or property) available for letting again after the previous tenants have vacated it
- re-run — If you say that something is a re-run of a particular event or experience, you mean that what happens now is very similar to what happened in the past.
- reachs — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
- reader — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- readme — an explanatory document that accompanies computer files or software
- reagan — Nancy Davis (Anne Francis Robbins Davis) born 1921, U.S. First Lady 1981–89 (wife of Ronald Reagan).
- reagin — Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- reales — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
- realia — real-life facts and material used in teaching
- really — in reality; actually: to see things as they really are.
- realty — real property or real estate.
- reamed — to enlarge to desired size (a previously bored hole) by means of a reamer.
- reamer — any of various rotary tools, with helical or straight flutes, for finishing or enlarging holes drilled in metal.
- reaped — to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- reaper — a machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine.
- reared — to take care of and support up to maturity: to rear a child.
- rearer — the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house.
- reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- reasty — rancid
- reated — to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine: to amalgamate two companies.
- reaum. — Réaumur (scale)
- reavow — to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit: He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
- reback — to provide (a book) with a new back, backing or lining
- rebait — food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- rebate — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- rebato — rabato.
- rebill — to bill or charge (someone or something) again
- rebind — fasten together again
- rebite — to give (a printing plate or a particular area of a printing plate) another application of acid in order to cause further cutting
- rebody — to give a new body to (something, esp a vehicle)
- rebook — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- reboot — to restart (a computer) by loading the operating system; boot again.
- rebore — the process of boring out the cylinders of a worn reciprocating engine and fitting oversize pistons
- reborn — having undergone rebirth.
- rebosa — rebozo.
- reboso — rebozo.
- rebote — the rear wall of a cancha or jai alai court. Compare frontis.
- rebozo — a long woven scarf, often of fine material, worn over the head and shoulders by Spanish and Mexican women.
- rebuff — a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.