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12-letter words containing a, r, i, s, t

  • residentiary — residing; resident.
  • respite care — Respite care is short-term care that is provided for very old or very sick people so that the person who usually cares for them can have a break.
  • respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
  • restauration — restoration
  • restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • restrainings — acts of restraining
  • resupination — a resupinate condition.
  • resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
  • resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
  • retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • revisitation — the act of visiting.
  • rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
  • ribeye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • 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.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • sacroiliitis — the inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
  • sacrosciatic — of the sacrum and the ischium
  • safari shirt — a shirt resembling a bush jacket.
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint martha — a sister of Mary and Lazarus, who lived at Bethany and ministered to Jesus (Luke 10:38–42). Feast day: July 29 or June 4
  • saint martin — Saint, died a.d. 655, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 649–655.
  • saint moritz — a resort town in SE Switzerland: a popular center for winter sports. 6037 feet (1840 meters) high.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • saint-pierre — two small groups of islands off the S coast of Newfoundland: an overseas territory of France; important base for fishing. 3 sq. mi. (240 sq. km). Capital: St. Pierre.
  • saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
  • salescritter — /sayls'kri"tr/ Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson. Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman? A. The used-car dealer knows he's lying. [Some versions add: ...and probably knows how to drive.] This reflects the widespread hacker belief that salescritters are self-selected for stupidity (after all, if they had brains and the inclination to use them, they'd be in programming). The terms "salesthing" and "salesdroid" are also common. Compare marketroid, suit.
  • 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.
  • samaritanism — an inhabitant of Samaria.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sanitariness — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
  • sarcomatosis — the condition in which a sarcoma has become disseminated throughout the body.
  • sat sri akal — a salutation used in India
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
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