Words starting with R, then E, then R, ending in Y
162 words fit this spine. They're all listed below. They start with R, end with Y, and contain E then R in that order in between — not necessarily side by side.
- rabbi doesn't fit: it starts with R but ends with I, not Y.
- radically doesn't fit: it has the right ends but no E in the middle.
- rarely doesn't fit: it has every letter of RERY but they don't appear in order inside it.
5-letter words
redry, refry, retry
6-letter words
rebury, revery, ropery, rosery
7-letter words
recarry, rectory, reentry, remarry, respray, retiary, revelry, riflery, robbery, rockery, roguery, rookery, rubbery
8-letter words
raillery, readerly, recovery, refinery, registry, reinjury, repurify, resurvey, retrally, reverify, revisory, rocketry, rosemary
9-letter words
raspberry, recertify, refectory, refortify, regularly, reliquary, repertory, residuary, retiredly, reversely
10-letter words
radiometry, redelivery, redemptory, refractory, regeneracy, regularity, regulatory, remarkably, renography, reportedly, repository, rescissory, reservedly, responsory, retiringly, revelatory, reverently, reversibly, rowanberry
11-letter words
reactionary, reciprocity, recurrently, recursively, rediscovery, reformatory, regardfully, regretfully, regrettably, reprobatory, reprography, reprovingly, respiratory, retaliatory, retributory, revisionary, rewardingly, rudimentary
12-letter words
radiotherapy, reassuringly, recessionary, reciprocally, reflationary, refractively, refractivity, refractorily, refreshingly, regardlessly, regenerately, regressively, regressivity, remorsefully, remuneratory, renunciatory, repressively, reproducibly, respirometry, restrainedly, restrictedly, retractility, retrogradely, reversionary, rhetorically, roisterously
13-letter words
rebarbatively, recalcitrancy, recriminatory, rectangularly, rectilinearly, referentially, reflectometry, reformability, refractometry, reiteratively, remonstrantly, remorselessly, repairability, reportorially, reprehensibly, reproachfully, reproachingly, resourcefully, restrictively, retributively, retroactively, retroactivity, reverberantly, reverberatory, reverentially, reversibility, revolutionary, rudimentarily
14-letter words
radiochemistry, radiotelemetry, recommendatory, reconciliatory, recoverability, rectangularity, referentiality, refrangibility, remuneratively, repressibility, reproductively, retrievability
15-letter words
radiometrically, radiotelegraphy, rememberability, remonstratively, reproducibility, retrogressively, retrospectively, revolutionarily, roentgenography
16-letter words
rechromatography, reprehensibility, representatively, representativity
17-letter words
retroperitoneally
18-letter words
representationally
20-letter words
roentgenographically
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