11-letter words containing a, y, o
- quotidianly — daily: a quotidian report.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- radiopacity — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- rally round — show solidarity
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- rationality — the state or quality of being rational.
- reactionary — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- ready money — money that is in hand or may be obtained quickly or easily; cash.
- reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- religionary — pertaining to religion
- reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- reservatory — any place where reserves or stores are kept, esp of food and/or water; esp, a reservoir
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- retaliatory — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- road hockey — an imitation of the game of ice hockey played typically by children without ice skates on a public road.
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- roadability — the ability of a motor vehicle to maintain a steady, balanced, and comfortable ride, especially under a variety of road conditions.
- robotically — in a robotic manner
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- rosy pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
- rotary dial — dial (def 4).
- rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
- rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
- rotary pump — a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.
- rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- royal gorge — a gorge of the Arkansas River in S central Colorado. 10 miles (16 km) long; up to 1000 feet (305 meters) deep.
- royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
- royal jelly — a viscous substance secreted from the pharyngeal glands of worker honeybees, fed to all larvae during their first few days and afterward only to those larvae selected to be queens.
- safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- salaciously — lustful or lecherous.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.