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12-letter words containing i, r, e, l, a, n

  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
  • retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
  • revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
  • rhinocerical — of or relating to the rhinoceros
  • rhinorrhoeal — of or relating to rhinorrhoea
  • rhode island — US state
  • ribbon cable — (hardware)   A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
  • right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
  • ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
  • role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
  • role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
  • roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
  • rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • royal tennis — court tennis.
  • ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
  • run in place — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • russian blue — any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have originated in Arkhangelsk, with a soft, dense, grayish-blue or silvery-blue coat and green eyes
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
  • saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
  • selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sierra leone — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • silas marner — a novel (1861) by George Eliot.
  • silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
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