11-letter words containing a, t, i, c, s
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- post-coital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
- postcranial — located posterior to the head.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- postglacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- postvocalic — immediately following a vowel.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- psittacosis — a rickettsial disease affecting birds of the parrot family, pigeons, and domestic fowl, caused by the chlamydia Chlamydia psittaci and transmissible to humans.
- psittacotic — of or relating to psittacosis
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- racialistic — Of or pertaining to racism or racists.
- radiculitis — inflammation of a spinal nerve root.
- 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
- ray casting — (graphics) A simplified form of ray tracing. A ray is fired from each pixel in the view plane, and information is accumulated from all the voxels in the volume data it intersects. Each voxel is first given an associated colour and opacity. The ray is sampled at a fixed number of evenly spaced locations and the colour and opacity are trilinearly interpolated from the eight nearest voxels. These are then composed linearly back to front to give a single colour for the pixel. Ray casting was invented by John Carmack for the game Wolfenstein 3D. It is faster and lower quality than ray tracing, and is ideal for interactive applications. It parallelises well, although random access is needed to the voxels.
- 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.
- reassociate — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- rectiserial — arranged in straight rows
- resistencia — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- resuscitate — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- 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.
- 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.
- ritualistic — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- 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).
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- 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.
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- sacred site — a place of great significance
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saint clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
- saint croix — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- saint lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.