12-letter words containing i, s, o, t, n
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionings — Plural form of questioning.
- questionless — unquestionable; doubtless: a questionless fact.
- quintillions — Plural form of quintillion.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- reconstitute — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reestimation — judgment or opinion: In my estimation the boy is guilty.
- register ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- registration — the act of registering.
- reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
- reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
- rejectionist — an Arab leader or country that opposes accommodation or compromise in negotiations with Israel.
- relationless — having no family relations
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- resolutioner — a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.
- 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
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- restauration — restoration
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
- retentionist — a person who advocates the retention of something, esp capital punishment
- retrocession — to cede back: to retrocede a territory.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- ribbon strip — ribbon (def 8).
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
- 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.
- root version — The initial value of an object in a change management system.
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- rustic joint — a joint between stones recessed from the faces between sunken drafts or bevels.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sailing boat — sailboat.