11-letter words containing a, c, e, t, o
- refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
- reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- reinoculate — to inoculate again
- relocatable — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
- replication — a reply; answer.
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- report card — a written report containing an evaluation of a pupil's scholarship and behavior, sent periodically to the pupil's parents or guardian, usually on a card containing marks and comments together with a record of attendance.
- retroaction — action that is opposed or contrary to the preceding action.
- retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- root cellar — a cellar, partially or wholly underground and usually covered with dirt, where root crops and other vegetables are stored.
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- saddlecloth — Horse Racing. a cloth placed over the saddle of a racehorse bearing the horse's number.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
- sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
- sapotaceous — belonging to the Sapotaceae, the sapodilla family of plants.
- scare story — A scare story is something that is said or written to make people feel frightened and think that a situation is much more unpleasant or dangerous than it really is.
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- scattershot — delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
- scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- second mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the first mate.
- second-rate — of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- selectorate — a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election
- selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
- somaticized — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation