12-letter words containing a, l, i, t, o
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- rooster tail — the wake thrown up behind a speeding boat or the dust thrown up behind a speeding vehicle.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- ruralization — to make rural.
- sacroiliitis — the inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- sal volatile — an aromatic alcoholic solution of ammonium carbonate, the chief ingredient in smelling salts.
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salinization — the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline, as by the irrigation of land with brackish water.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
- saltationist — a person who adheres to saltationism
- salutational — relating to salutation
- salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
- salutatorium — a porch or room in a monastery or church serving as a meeting or almsgiving place for monks or priests and the laity.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- salvationist — a member of the Salvation Army.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- sansculottic — relating to sansculottes
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scatological — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
- scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.