12-Letter Words Starting with R

RENUNCIATE

""Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows. as, renunciatory vows.""

""OCCUPATION The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.""

""OCCURRENCE A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. as, the occurence of a railway collision.""

Reoperation

Reorganizer

ORGANIZING organize

""Inflected form of ORIENTATED Inflected form of ORIENTATE To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.""

Reorientate

Reoutfit

Reoxidation

Repartition

PATRIATING patriate

PW's hope.

The returning of someone to their own country

Repattern

Repellency

Altering course, sniper produces echo

Indirect effect; echo

Indirect consequence of some action

Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

Note: reptilia evolved like parrots

Repetitive

PHOTOGRAPH A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Dicky sent me parcel with new spare parts maybe

For each upset select man changing substitutes

Substitutes artificial pearls containing binding agent

The act of planting again; a replanting.

Replaster

PLENISHERS plenisher

Replenish

Replication

POLARIZING polarize

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

POPULATING populate

The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

Reposition

Repository

Taking back

Recovery of something owned

Lender's response to car loan default

Result of borrower's car loan default

Repossessor

Reprehend

Censure about her pension, sadly

Blame, reproof

Containing reprehension; conveying reproof.

Representere

Acting for theatre and taking offence

Speaking or acting for.

Job of 435 at Washington.

Repressive

Inflected form of PRESSURIZE Inflected form of PRESSURE to apply force to

Reprimand

To restore to an original state.

Inflected form of PRIVATIZED Inflected form of PRIVATIZE

Reprivatize

Able to be rebuked or upbraided

Reprobation

Preparing for another use

Treating, eg, spent nuclear fuel for reuse

""PRODUCIBLE Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

REPRODUCE To produce again.

Copy (of a work of art)

Golfer, say, cut out copy

Print made of a painting

""Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.""

Reprogram

PROGRAMMED program

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

Reprovision

PUBLISHERS publisher

Republish

Repudiation

Repugnancy

PURCHASING purchase

Having a good reputation; honorable.

""REPUTATION The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.""

Necessities

Demands about four sheets of paper for tenor in the Men's

Right to go into mass meeting with hospital department's demands

Formal demands

Reradiation

Reregister

REGULATING regulate

""REGULATION The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.""

Putting off green, child has us beaten

Rescindment

SEARCHABLE Capable of being searched.

Researchist

Inflected form of SEGREGATED Inflected form of SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Resegregate

Resemblance

""Inflected form of SENSITIZED Inflected form of SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

Resensitize

SENTENCING sentence

Doubts about dinner plans (wordplay)

Displaced tribes to be put in them? One has qualms

RESERVED reserve

Moving to live in a different place

Taking up residence in a new location

Rearrangement, it's to do with paying

Notices new sign in a store

Acquiescence

Resiliency

Resistless

Inflected form of SOCIALIZED Inflected form of SOCIALIZE To render social.

Resocialize

SOLIDIFIED solidify

Resolidify

The quality of being resolute.

Resounding

Respectable

With due honors

Particularly clever type is wrong

Individually in the order given

Individually and in the order mentioned

Respiration

""SPIROMETER An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. Cf. Pneumatometer. Pneumatometer.""

SPIROMETRY The act or process of measuring the chest capacity by means of a spirometer.

Sumptuous quality

The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.

Responsive

Responsory

""A generalized feeling of resentment and often hostility harbored by one individual or group against another, especially chronically and with no means of direct expression.""

Inflected form of STABILIZED Inflected form of STABILIZE

Restabilize

Begrudges ringing Tate Modern initially for new accounts

Person running eating house

Eating premises owner

One catering to diners

""Inflected form of STIMULATED Inflected form of STIMULATE To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.""

Restimulate

Restitution

Inability to keep still

Quality involving constant activity

Perpetual-motion state

Restoration

Restorative

Capable of being restrained; controllable.

With restraint.

To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

Restricted

Tailor contrite with sir's ties

Restrictive

Organised differently

Restructure

SUBMISSION The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.

Resubmit

Resurrect

Conveyance delivering a travelling woman

Act of coming back to life after death

The last novel written by Leo Tolstoy

Brought back to consciousness

Test acid user, possibly given a quick fix (wordplay)

Resuscitate

One who brings back to life or consciousness

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Retaliation

Retardation

Reticulate

RETICULATE

Cult that is, perhaps, about to apply restrictions to network

An immature red blood cell that contains a network of basophilic filaments.

Retighten

Adjective (-al)

RETIRING retire

TRACTILITY The quality of being tractile; ductility.

Retransform

TRANSLATED

Retranslate

Reduction of expenditure

Digging more ditches for the sake of economy (wordplay)

Ditch mining engineer included in fee achieving economy

Retribution

Retroaction

The act of retroceding.

Retrodict

Retrodict

Retrodict

Retrofit

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion. Retroversion.

Retrograde

""RETROGRADE Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.""

Degenerated

Retrogress

Retrospect

""A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus. as, retroversion of the uterus.""

Retrovirus

UNIONISTIC Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.

Reupholster

""Inflected form of VACCINATED Inflected form of VACCINATE To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows. vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.""

Revaccinate

VALIDATING validate

Further confirmation of truth

Once more confirming the truth (of something)

VALORIZING valorize

Revaluation

VEGETATING vegetate

""VEGETATION The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.""

Revengeful

Echoed with sound

Beat or sent back sound

Echoed

Reverberate

""Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right. as, a reversionary interest or right.""

VERSIONERS versioner

Revictual

VICTUALLED victual

Revisionism

Revisionist

VITALISING vitalise

VITALIZING vitalize

Pertaining to revivals.

""Rare restoration to life or animation; revival [from Latin, from revīviscere come back to life, related to vīvere to live; see revive ]""

Rhabdocoele

""RHABDOME a rodlike structure in the retinula, also RHABDOM""

""RHAPSODIZE To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody""

Rhetorical

Skilled speakers that may give heroic rants, I fancy

Toe ma roughly bashed? Medical specialist may know all about it

Group that's called a crash

Myopic giants

Hefty herbivores

Rhinoscopy

Rhinovirus

Rhizoctonia

Rhizosphere

Trumpet-shaped flower

Shrub with large flower clusters

Large shrub with evergreen leaves

Bragging to make Orlando furious (wordplay)

""Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.""

Solid figure with six equal faces

To the beat