11-letter words containing a, r, i, s, t
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- restabilize — to stabilize again
- restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- restimulate — to stimulate again, reactivate
- restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- resuscitate — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- retreatists — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- 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.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- 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.
- right stage — the part of the stage that is right of center as one faces the audience.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- rion strait — Lepanto (def 3).
- rising star — up-and-coming performer
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- risk-taking — courting danger or loss
- ritualistic — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- road-trials — a road test
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
- rooibos tea — tea prepared from any of several species of Borbonia or Aspalanthus, believed to have tonic properties
- roostertail — a full spray or cloud, as of water in the wake of a speeding boat or dust from a speeding car
- rousseauist — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- sabbatarian — a person who observes the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the Sabbath.
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacred site — a place of great significance
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- safari suit — a suit consisting of a bush jacket and matching trousers.
- sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
- sagittarius — zodiac sign: Archer
- sailor suit — naval uniform