9-letter words starting with RE
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter RE. This section showcases how RE at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with RE, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| recognize | 21 | express greetings upon meeting someone | - |
| religious | 10 | concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | religious texts |
| returning | 10 | tending to be turned back | - |
| recording | 13 | the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth |
| represent | 11 | perform (a play), especially on a stage | - |
| recommend | 16 | push for something | The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day |
| reception | 13 | the act of receiving | - |
| rehearsal | 12 | a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert) | he missed too many rehearsals |
| regarding | 12 | - | - |
| recovered | 15 | freed from illness or injury | appears to be entirely recovered |
| relations | 9 | mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | - |
| remaining | 12 | not used up | saved the remaining sandwiches for supper |
| requested | 19 | asked for | the requested aid is forthcoming |
| recognise | 12 | express greetings upon meeting someone | - |
| reporting | 12 | the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | - |
| respected | 14 | receiving deferential regard | a respected family |
| residence | 12 | a large and imposing house | - |
| receiving | 15 | - | - |
| reference | 14 | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
| realistic | 11 | representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | realistic portraiture |
| repeating | 12 | the act of doing or performing again | - |
| referring | 13 | - | - |
| regularly | 13 | in a regular manner | letters arrived regularly from his children |
| rebellion | 11 | organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | - |
| releasing | 10 | emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | - |
| revealing | 13 | disclosing unintentionally something concealed | - |
| rejection | 18 | (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign | rejection of the transplanted liver |
| replacing | 14 | the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | replacing the star will not be easy |
| realizing | 19 | - | - |
| reflected | 15 | (especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back | reflected light |
| reluctant | 11 | unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | a reluctant smile |
| revolting | 13 | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | revolting food |
| reproduce | 14 | repeat after memorization | - |
| reduction | 12 | the act of decreasing or reducing something | - |
| reservoir | 12 | lake used to store water for community use | - |
| remarried | 12 | - | - |
| resistant | 9 | disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | - |
| reasoning | 10 | thinking that is coherent and logical | - |
| recycling | 17 | the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
| restraint | 9 | the state of being physically constrained | dogs should be kept under restraint |
| rehearsed | 13 | - | - |
| repressed | 12 | characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions | repressed rage turned his face scarlet |
| repulsive | 14 | so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | a repulsive mask |
| rewarding | 14 | providing personal satisfaction | a rewarding career as a paramedic |
| relevance | 14 | the relation of something to the matter at hand | - |
| redundant | 11 | more than is needed, desired, or required | yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant |
| renovated | 13 | - | - |
| reconcile | 13 | come to terms | - |
| remainder | 12 | a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | - |
| retaliate | 9 | make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing |
| resurrect | 11 | return from the dead | - |
| restoring | 10 | - | - |
| recession | 11 | the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | - |
| residency | 15 | the act of dwelling in a place | - |
| rearrange | 10 | put into a new order or arrangement | Please rearrange these files |
| reassured | 10 | having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | reassured by her praise he pressed on |
| reinforce | 14 | strengthen and support with rewards | Let's reinforce good behavior |
| reckoning | 16 | a bill for an amount due | - |
| retreated | 10 | people who have retreated | he had only contempt for the retreated |
| recurring | 12 | coming back | - |
| registrar | 10 | someone responsible for keeping records | - |
| regulated | 11 | controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law | well regulated industries |
| resonance | 11 | having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | - |
| refreshed | 16 | with restored energy | - |
| repugnant | 12 | offensive to the mind | morally repugnant customs |
| reverence | 14 | regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | - |
| retrieved | 13 | - | - |
| refueling | 13 | the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | - |
| readiness | 10 | prompt willingness | readiness to continue discussions |
| renounced | 12 | - | - |
| recipient | 13 | a person who receives something | - |
| remission | 11 | a payment of money sent to a person in another place | - |
| relocated | 12 | settled in a new location | - |
| rendering | 11 | a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | - |
| replicate | 13 | make or do or perform again | He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick |
| resilient | 9 | elastic; rebounds readily | as resilient as seasoned hickory |
| requiring | 19 | - | - |
| revolving | 16 | - | - |
| repellent | 11 | serving or tending to repel | I find his obsequiousness repellent |
| reprimand | 14 | censure severely or angrily | - |
| relieving | 13 | - | - |
| receptive | 16 | ready or willing to receive favorably | receptive to the proposals |
| realising | 10 | - | - |
| reprogram | 14 | - | - |
| reconnect | 13 | - | - |
| reimburse | 13 | reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | - |
| retriever | 12 | a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
| recapture | 13 | capture again | recapture the escaped prisoner |
| repayment | 16 | the act of returning money received previously | - |
| recollect | 13 | recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | - |
| resentful | 12 | full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will | resentful at the way he was treated |
| repairman | 13 | a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | - |
| rewinding | 14 | - | - |
| renewable | 14 | capable of being renewed; replaceable | renewable energy such as solar energy is theoretically inexhaustible |
| recruiter | 11 | an official who enlists personnel for military service | - |
| regulator | 10 | a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | - |
| rewriting | 13 | editing that involves writing something again | - |
| reminisce | 13 | recall the past | - |
| resolving | 13 | analysis into clear-cut components | - |
| replenish | 14 | fill something that had previously been emptied | - |
| retrieval | 12 | the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | - |
| rendition | 10 | an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning |
| retention | 9 | the power of retaining and recalling past experience | - |
| rejoicing | 19 | the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | - |
| reinstate | 9 | bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | - |
| redheaded | 15 | having red hair and usually fair skin | - |
| redeeming | 13 | bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | redemptive (or redeeming) love |
| reconvene | 14 | meet again | The bill will be considered when the Legislature reconvenes next Fall |
| reputable | 13 | having a good reputation | a reputable business |
| regaining | 11 | getting something back again | - |
| reclusive | 14 | withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | lived an unsocial reclusive life |
| regretful | 13 | feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | felt regretful over his vanished youth |
| rewritten | 12 | - | - |
| reclaimed | 14 | delivered from danger | - |
| reptilian | 11 | any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | - |
| reachable | 16 | easily approached | - |
| rectangle | 12 | a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
| reflector | 14 | optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece | - |
| recharged | 16 | - | - |
| reclining | 12 | the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position | - |
| relegated | 11 | - | - |
| refresher | 15 | a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments | - |
| remodeled | 13 | - | - |
| reiterate | 9 | to say, state, or perform again | - |
| resurface | 14 | appear again | The missing man suddenly resurfaced in New York |
| rectifier | 14 | a person who corrects or sets right | a rectifier of prejudices |
| recurrent | 11 | recurring again and again | - |
| repulsion | 11 | intense aversion | - |
| requisite | 18 | anything indispensable | a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained |
| repentant | 11 | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | - |
| repossess | 11 | claim back | - |
| relishing | 13 | taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | - |
| redefined | 14 | - | - |
| resonator | 9 | an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude | - |
| rerouting | 10 | - | - |
| recordist | 12 | - | - |
| revulsion | 12 | intense aversion | - |
| resonated | 10 | - | - |
| reshuffle | 18 | shuffling again | the gambler demanded a reshuffle |
| reservist | 12 | a member of a military reserve | - |
| reanimate | 11 | give new life or energy to | - |
| reuniting | 10 | - | - |
| reportage | 12 | the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | - |
| retracted | 12 | drawn back and in | a cat with retracted claws |
| refurbish | 17 | make brighter and prettier | we refurbished the guest wing |
| rereading | 11 | - | - |
| refectory | 17 | a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) | - |
| rearguard | 11 | a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body | - |
| retractor | 11 | surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision | - |
| repellant | 11 | serving or tending to repel | - |
| reformist | 14 | favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | - |
| retardant | 10 | any agent that retards or delays or hinders | flame-retardant |
| rectified | 15 | having been put right | - |
| reprobate | 13 | a person without moral scruples | - |
| removable | 16 | able to be obliterated completely | - |
| retracing | 12 | - | - |
| retentive | 12 | good at remembering | a retentive mind |
| resultant | 9 | the final point in a process | - |
| redbreast | 12 | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | - |
| reputedly | 15 | - | - |
| resetting | 10 | - | - |
| reexamine | 18 | look at again; examine again | - |
| reversion | 12 | returning to a former state | - |
| reunified | 13 | - | - |
| relatable | 11 | - | - |
| refinance | 14 | renew the financing of | - |
| reacquire | 20 | - | - |
| repackage | 18 | - | - |
| repertory | 14 | a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | - |
| rectitude | 12 | righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | - |
| repudiate | 12 | cast off | The parents repudiated their son |
| reserving | 13 | - | - |
| reselling | 10 | - | - |
| reflexive | 22 | a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent | - |
| refilling | 13 | filling again by supplying what has been used up | - |
| reverting | 13 | tending to return to an earlier state | - |
| revelling | 13 | - | - |
| retrocede | 12 | - | - |
| rethought | 16 | - | - |
| repelling | 12 | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | - |
| recombine | 15 | cause genetic recombination | should scientists recombine DNA? |
| responder | 12 | someone who responds | - |
| reprieved | 15 | - | - |
| redevelop | 15 | formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | - |
| reductive | 15 | characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment | their views of life were reductive and depreciatory |
| resettled | 10 | settled in a new location | - |
| retinitis | 9 | inflammation of the retina | - |
| reticence | 13 | the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | - |
| retelling | 10 | - | - |
| reconfirm | 16 | confirm again | You must reconfirm your flight reservations |
| retailing | 10 | the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
| reducible | 14 | capable of being reduced | reducible to a set of principles of human nature |
| reeducate | 12 | - | - |
| resection | 11 | surgical removal of part of a structure or organ | - |
| revenging | 14 | - | - |
| relevancy | 17 | the relation of something to the matter at hand | - |
| relapsing | 12 | a failure to maintain a higher state | - |
| renovator | 12 | a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | - |
| recasting | 12 | changing a particular word or phrase | - |
| recharger | 15 | - | - |
| recompose | 15 | - | - |
| reprehend | 15 | express strong disapproval of | - |
| remediate | 12 | set straight or right | - |
| remoulade | 12 | - | - |
| reversely | 15 | - | - |
| rebalance | 13 | - | - |
| retardate | 10 | - | - |
| reconquer | 20 | conquer anew | The country reconquered the territory lost in the previous war |
| reignited | 11 | - | - |
| repressor | 11 | an agent that represses | - |
| reproving | 15 | expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | - |
| repulsing | 12 | - | - |
| redrawing | 14 | - | - |
| reworking | 17 | - | - |
| revocable | 16 | capable of being revoked or annulled | a revocable order |
| rebounder | 12 | - | - |
| recapping | 16 | - | - |
| recessive | 14 | an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical | - |
| repayable | 16 | subject to repayment | business loans are usually repayable in regular installments |
| reclaimer | 13 | - | - |
| recreance | 13 | - | - |
| repletion | 11 | eating until excessively full | - |
| recumbent | 15 | lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | - |
| respecter | 13 | a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative | X is no respecter of Y |
| refutable | 14 | able to be refuted | - |
| refurnish | 15 | furnish with new or different furniture | We refurnished the living room |
| repurpose | 13 | - | - |
| reframing | 15 | - | - |
| reshingle | 13 | - | - |
| refocused | 15 | - | - |
| reflexion | 19 | a likeness in which left and right are reversed | - |
| refection | 14 | a light meal or repast | - |
| resiances | 11 | - | - |
| remelting | 12 | - | - |
| remembers | 15 | - | - |
| remending | 13 | - | - |
| remercied | 14 | - | - |
| remercies | 13 | - | - |
| remerging | 13 | - | - |
| remigated | 13 | - | - |
| remigates | 12 | - | - |
| remigrate | 12 | - | - |
| reminders | 12 | - | - |
| remindful | 15 | serving to bring to mind | - |
| reminding | 13 | - | - |
| reminting | 12 | - | - |
| remissive | 14 | - | - |
| remissory | 14 | - | - |
| remitment | 13 | a payment of money sent to a person in another place | - |
| remittals | 11 | - | - |
| remittees | 11 | - | - |
| remittent | 11 | (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity | a remittent fever |
| remitters | 11 | - | - |
| remitting | 12 | - | - |
| remittors | 11 | - | - |
| remixture | 18 | - | - |
| remnantal | 11 | - | - |
| remodeler | 12 | - | - |
| remoisten | 11 | - | - |
| remolades | 12 | - | - |
| remolding | 13 | - | - |
| remontant | 11 | - | - |
| remontoir | 11 | - | - |
| remotions | 11 | - | - |
| remoulded | 13 | - | - |
| remounted | 12 | - | - |
| removably | 19 | - | - |
| removedly | 18 | - | - |
| remurmurs | 13 | - | - |
| renaguing | 11 | - | - |
| renailing | 10 | - | - |
| renascent | 11 | rising again as to new life and vigor | - |
| renatured | 10 | - | - |
| renatures | 9 | - | - |
| rencontre | 11 | - | - |
| renderers | 10 | - | - |
| rendzinas | 19 | - | - |
| reneagued | 11 | - | - |
| reneagues | 10 | - | - |
| renegaded | 12 | - | - |
| renegades | 11 | - | - |
| renegados | 11 | - | - |
| renegates | 10 | - | - |
| reneguers | 10 | - | - |
| reneguing | 11 | - | - |
| renesting | 10 | - | - |
| renewably | 17 | - | - |
| renewedly | 16 | - | - |
| renewings | 13 | - | - |
| renfierst | 12 | - | - |
| renforced | 15 | - | - |
| renforces | 14 | - | - |
| renigging | 12 | - | - |
| renitence | 11 | - | - |
| renitency | 14 | - | - |
| renminbis | 13 | - | - |
| renograms | 12 | - | - |
| renouncer | 11 | - | - |
| renounces | 11 | - | - |
| renovates | 12 | - | - |
| renowners | 12 | - | - |
| renowning | 13 | - | - |
| rentaller | 9 | - | - |
| renumbers | 13 | - | - |
| renversed | 13 | - | - |
| renverses | 12 | - | - |
| reobjects | 20 | - | - |
| reobserve | 14 | - | - |
| reobtains | 11 | - | - |
| reoffends | 16 | - | - |
| reoffered | 16 | - | - |
| reopeners | 11 | - | - |
| reopening | 12 | - | - |
| reoperate | 11 | - | - |
| reopposed | 14 | - | - |
| reopposes | 13 | - | - |
| reordains | 10 | - | - |
| reordered | 11 | - | - |
| reorients | 9 | - | - |
| reoutfits | 12 | - | - |
| reoxidise | 17 | - | - |
| reoxidize | 26 | - | - |
| repacking | 18 | - | - |
| repainted | 12 | - | - |
| repairers | 11 | - | - |
| repairing | 12 | - | - |
| repairmen | 13 | - | - |
| repaneled | 12 | - | - |
| repapered | 14 | - | - |
| reparable | 13 | capable of being repaired or rectified | reparable damage to the car |
| reparably | 16 | - | - |
| reparking | 16 | - | - |
| reparteed | 12 | - | - |
| repartees | 11 | - | - |
| repassage | 12 | - | - |
| repassing | 12 | - | - |
| repasting | 12 | - | - |
| repasture | 11 | - | - |
| repatched | 17 | - | - |
| repatches | 16 | - | - |
| repattern | 11 | - | - |
| repealers | 11 | - | - |
| repealing | 12 | - | - |
| repeaters | 11 | - | - |
| repechage | 17 | a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race | - |
| repegging | 14 | - | - |
| repellers | 11 | - | - |
| repenters | 11 | - | - |
| repenting | 12 | - | - |
| repeopled | 14 | - | - |
| repeoples | 13 | - | - |
| repercuss | 13 | cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect | - |
| reperepes | 13 | - | - |
| reperking | 16 | - | - |
| reperusal | 11 | - | - |
| reperused | 12 | - | - |
| reperuses | 11 | - | - |
| repetends | 12 | - | - |
| rephrased | 15 | - | - |
| rephrases | 14 | - | - |
| repigment | 14 | - | - |
| repinings | 12 | - | - |
| repinning | 12 | - | - |
| repiquing | 21 | - | - |
| replacers | 13 | - | - |
| replanned | 12 | - | - |
| replanted | 12 | - | - |
| replaster | 11 | - | - |
| replating | 12 | - | - |
| replaying | 15 | - | - |
| repleaded | 13 | - | - |
| repleader | 12 | - | - |
| repledged | 14 | - | - |
| repledges | 13 | - | - |
| repletely | 14 | - | - |
| repleting | 12 | - | - |
| replevied | 15 | - | - |
| replevies | 14 | - | - |
| replevins | 14 | - | - |
| replicant | 13 | - | - |
| replicase | 13 | - | - |
| replicons | 13 | - | - |
| replotted | 12 | - | - |
| reploughs | 15 | - | - |
| replowing | 15 | - | - |
| replumbed | 16 | - | - |
| replunged | 13 | - | - |
| replunges | 12 | - | - |
| repointed | 12 | - | - |
| repolling | 12 | - | - |
| reporters | 11 | - | - |
| reposalls | 11 | - | - |
| reposedly | 15 | - | - |
| reposeful | 14 | affording physical or mental rest | - |
| reposited | 12 | - | - |
| repositor | 11 | - | - |
| reposting | 12 | - | - |
| reposures | 11 | - | - |
| repotting | 12 | - | - |
| repouring | 12 | - | - |
| repousses | 11 | - | - |
| repowered | 15 | - | - |
| repreeved | 15 | - | - |
| repreeves | 14 | - | - |
| represser | 11 | an agent that represses | - |
| represses | 11 | - | - |
| repricing | 14 | - | - |
| repriefes | 14 | - | - |
| reprieval | 14 | - | - |
| repriever | 14 | - | - |
| reprieves | 14 | - | - |
| repriming | 14 | - | - |
| reprinted | 12 | - | - |
| reprinter | 11 | - | - |
| reprisals | 11 | - | - |
| reprising | 12 | - | - |
| repriving | 15 | - | - |
| reprizing | 21 | - | - |
| reprobacy | 18 | - | - |
| reprobing | 14 | - | - |
| reprocess | 13 | use again after processing | - |
| reproofed | 15 | - | - |
| reprovals | 14 | - | - |
| reprovers | 14 | - | - |
| repryving | 18 | - | - |
| reptation | 11 | - | - |
| reptilium | 13 | - | - |
| reptiloid | 12 | - | - |
| republics | 15 | - | - |
| republish | 16 | publish again | The scientist republished his results after he made some corrections |
| repugning | 13 | - | - |
| repulping | 14 | - | - |
| repulsers | 11 | - | - |
| repumping | 16 | - | - |
| repursued | 12 | - | - |
| repursues | 11 | - | - |
| reputably | 16 | in a reputable manner | - |
| reputings | 12 | - | - |
| requalify | 24 | - | - |
| requering | 19 | - | - |
| requester | 18 | one praying humbly for something | - |
| requestor | 18 | - | - |
| requicken | 24 | - | - |
| requights | 22 | - | - |
| requintos | 18 | - | - |
| requirers | 18 | - | - |
| requitals | 18 | - | - |
| requiters | 18 | - | - |
| requiting | 19 | - | - |
| requitted | 19 | - | - |
| requoting | 19 | - | - |
| requoyled | 22 | - | - |
| requoyles | 21 | - | - |
| reracking | 16 | - | - |
| reradiate | 10 | - | - |
| rerailing | 10 | - | - |
| reraising | 10 | - | - |
| rerebrace | 13 | cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | - |
| rerecords | 12 | - | - |
| reredoses | 10 | - | - |
| reredosse | 10 | - | - |
| rerelease | 9 | - | - |
| rereminds | 12 | - | - |
| reremouse | 11 | - | - |
| rerenting | 10 | - | - |
| rerepeats | 11 | - | - |
| rereviews | 15 | - | - |
| rerevised | 13 | - | - |
| rerevises | 12 | - | - |
| rerewards | 13 | - | - |
| rerigging | 12 | - | - |
| rerollers | 9 | - | - |
| rerolling | 10 | - | - |
| reroofing | 13 | - | - |
| rerunning | 10 | - | - |
| resaddled | 12 | - | - |
| retreater | 9 | - | - |
| retitling | 10 | - | - |
| retooling | 10 | - | - |
| retorsion | 9 | - | - |
| retorters | 9 | - | - |
| retorting | 10 | - | - |
| retortion | 9 | - | - |
| retortive | 12 | - | - |
| retotaled | 10 | - | - |
| retouched | 15 | - | - |
| retoucher | 14 | - | - |
| retouches | 14 | - | - |
| retouring | 10 | - | - |
| retracers | 11 | - | - |
| retracked | 16 | - | - |
| retraicts | 11 | - | - |
| retrained | 10 | - | - |
| retrainee | 9 | - | - |
| retraites | 9 | - | - |
| retraitts | 9 | - | - |
| retrating | 10 | - | - |
| retreaded | 11 | - | - |
| retrousse | 9 | (used of noses) turned up at the end | a retrousse nose |
| retteries | 9 | - | - |
