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11-letter words containing l, a, m, e, r

  • quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
  • rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
  • rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
  • random line — a trial survey line run from a station toward a predetermined point that cannot be seen from the station.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • real income — the amount of goods and services that money income will buy.
  • real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
  • realignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
  • reallotment — the act or process of reallotting something
  • reclaimable — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
  • reclaimably — in a reclaimable manner
  • reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
  • red admiral — the commander in chief of a fleet.
  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
  • regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
  • releasement — the act of releasing from confinement or responsibility
  • removal man — Removal men are men whose job is to move furniture or equipment from one building to another.
  • removal van — a large vehicle used to transport furniture or equipment from one building to another
  • remunerable — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
  • renormalize — to normalize again, to cause to conform to norms or a normal state again
  • replacement — the act of replacing.
  • resemblance — the state or fact of resembling; similarity.
  • restimulate — to stimulate again, reactivate
  • retinaculum — Anatomy, Zoology. any of various small structures that hook, clasp, or bind other structures to move them or hold them in place.
  • 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.
  • ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
  • ripple mark — one of the wavy lines or ridges produced, especially on sand, by the action of waves, wind, or the like.
  • 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.
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
  • sacramental — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • salad cream — Salad cream is a pale-yellow creamy sauce that you eat with salad.
  • salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • sample rate — (digital signal processing)   The number of times an analog signal is measured (sampled) per second. The unit of sample rate is "samples per second". This is often expressed in kiloHertz (kHz). For example, "CD quality" sound has a sample rate of 44 kHz. Compare data rate. See Nyquist frequency.
  • sample room — a room, as in a hotel suite, in which merchandise is displayed for sale to the trade.
  • sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
  • sarcolemmal — of or relating to the sarcolemma
  • scale maker — a person who makes scales for weighing
  • scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
  • scrap metal — discarded metal
  • screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
  • sea lamprey — a parasitic marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, that spawns in fresh water along both Atlantic coasts and in the Great Lakes, where it is responsible for losses of economically valuable fish.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
  • semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
  • semi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
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