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11-letter words containing a, s, o, r, t

  • protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
  • protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
  • protestable — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
  • pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
  • put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • questionary — a questionnaire.
  • radiologist — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
  • rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
  • ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.
  • rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • raster font — bitmap font
  • 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.
  • rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • rationalist — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
  • re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • reactionist — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reassertion — a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason: a mere assertion; an unwarranted assertion.
  • reassociate — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
  • rebroadcast — to broadcast again from the same station.
  • reinstation — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
  • relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
  • relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
  • remonstrant — remonstrating; expostulatory.
  • remonstrate — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • reparations — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
  • reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
  • reservatory — any place where reserves or stores are kept, esp of food and/or water; esp, a reservoir
  • resignation — the act of resigning.
  • respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
  • respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
  • restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
  • restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
  • restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
  • resveratrol — a compound found in red grapes, mulberries, peanuts, and certain plants, used medicinally as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
  • 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
  • retransform — to transform back, again or differently
  • retrosexual — a heterosexual man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance
  • retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
  • 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
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
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