11-letter words containing a, l, t, i, e, s
- plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
- plasticated — covered with a layer of plastic
- plasticizer — any of a group of substances that are used in plastics or other materials to impart viscosity, flexibility, softness, or other properties to the finished product.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- quarterlies — Plural form of quarterly.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- rail strike — a strike by railway workers
- ratio scale — a scale of measurement of data which permits the comparison of differences of values; a scale having a fixed zero value. The distances travelled by a projectile, for instance, are measured on a ratio scale since it makes sense to talk of one projectile travelling twice as far as another
- rationalise — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- real tennis — an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled indoor court with various openings, a sloping-roofed corridor along three sides, and a buttress on the fourth side
- rectiserial — arranged in straight rows
- reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- registrable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
- residential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- restabilize — to stabilize again
- restimulate — to stimulate again, reactivate
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- reusability — reuse
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- revitalised — to give new life to.
- revivalists — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- roostertail — a full spray or cloud, as of water in the wake of a speeding boat or dust from a speeding car
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- safety film — Photography. a film having a nonflammable base of triacetate cellulose.
- saint felix — Saint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
- saleability — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- saltishness — the condition of being saltish
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- satellitise — to bring satellite(s) into use in (meteorology, broadcasting, etc)
- satellitium — a group of three or more planets lying in one sign of the zodiac
- satellitize — to introduce satellite technology into (meteorology, broadcasting, etc)
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- satirizable — able to be satirized or ridiculed
- satisfiable — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.