11-letter words containing l, a, t, e, r, o
- retaliation — the act of retaliating; return of like for like; reprisal.
- retaliatory — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retinal rod — any of the elongated cylindrical cells in the retina of the eye, containing the visual purple (rhodopsin), which are sensitive to dim light but not to colour
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- retrolental — located or occurring behind a lens, as of the eye.
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- retrosexual — a heterosexual man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance
- revaluation — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- robot plane — an unmanned plane
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- rolled oats — oat grains that have been flattened under rollers
- roller gate — (on certain dams) a cylindrical gate that rises and falls by rotating against inclined racks.
- rollerskate — a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
- roostertail — a full spray or cloud, as of water in the wake of a speeding boat or dust from a speeding car
- root cellar — a cellar, partially or wholly underground and usually covered with dirt, where root crops and other vegetables are stored.
- rotor blade — one airfoil of the rotor of a rotary-wing aircraft.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- rural route — a mail delivery route in a rural area.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- selectorate — a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election
- selectorial — of or relating to selections or selectors
- serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- slot aerial — a transmitting aerial in which the radiating elements are open slots in a surrounding metal sheet
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- sole trader — feme-sole trader.
- sorrel salt — potassium binoxalate.
- southlander — a person from the south
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- stable door — a door with an upper and lower leaf that may be opened separately
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
- steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- stellarator — an experimental plasma-physics device in which magnetic fields confine the plasma within a tube shaped like a figure eight.
- stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- stroke play — medal play.