11-letter words containing l, a, t, r, n
- pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
- pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
- protoplanet — the collection of matter, in the process of condensation, from which a planet is formed.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- rallentando — slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- range table — one of a number of identical small tables that can be used together to form a single table.
- rat islands — a group of islands in SW Alaska, in the W Aleutian Islands.
- rationalise — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- rationalist — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- rationality — the state or quality of being rational.
- rationalize — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- rattlebrain — a giddy, empty-headed, talkative person.
- rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- real tennis — an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled indoor court with various openings, a sloping-roofed corridor along three sides, and a buttress on the fourth side
- realignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- realization — the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
- reallotment — the act or process of reallotting something
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
- reclination — to lean or lie back; rest in a recumbent position.
- rectangular — shaped like a rectangle.
- rectilinear — forming a straight line.
- redactional — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- redundantly — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
- referential — having reference: referential to something.
- reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- reinoculate — to inoculate again
- relatedness — associated; connected.
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
- releasement — the act of releasing from confinement or responsibility
- reluctantly — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
- rentability — a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- repentantly — repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
- replacement — the act of replacing.
- replication — a reply; answer.
- reptilianly — in the manner of a reptilian
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- residential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.