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10-letter words containing l, i, a, t, r

  • retaliated — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
  • reticulate — netted; covered with a network.
  • retinalite — a translucent greenish yellow variety of the mineral serpentine
  • retractile — capable of being drawn back or in, as the head of a tortoise; exhibiting the power of retraction.
  • retroviral — A retroviral is any one of a group of viruses, many of which produce tumors, that contain RNA and reverse transcriptase (= an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA), including the virus that causes AIDS.
  • revalidate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • revelation — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
  • revitalise — to give new life to.
  • revitalize — to give new life to.
  • revivalist — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
  • rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
  • rhabdolith — a minute rodlike structure, believed by some to be algae, found at the bottom and the surface of the ocean, and which is composed of calcium carbonate, calcium or limestone
  • rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  • rhythmical — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
  • rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
  • ridability — the state or quality of being ridable
  • right-laid — noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a right-handed, or clockwise, direction as one looks away along it (opposed to left-laid).
  • rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
  • ritschlian — of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.
  • ritualised — to practice ritualism.
  • ritualized — to practice ritualism.
  • rotational — the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
  • royal mint — a British organization having the sole right to manufacture coins since the 16th century. In 1968 it moved from London to Llantrisant in Wales
  • royalistic — relating to a royalist
  • rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • ruminantly — in a ruminant manner
  • sailboater — a person who sails a boat
  • sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
  • salt river — a river flowing W from E Arizona to the Gila River near Phoenix: Roosevelt Dam. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • saltigrade — moving by leaping.
  • salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
  • sanitarily — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
  • saturnalia — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
  • scarlatina — scarlet fever.
  • sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
  • scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • sea trials — a series of trial runs to test the performance of a new ship.
  • secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
  • secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
  • semestrial — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
  • senatorial — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a senator or senate: senatorial oratory.
  • serial ata — Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
  • sertraline — a drug, C 17 H 17 NCl 2 ·HCl, of the SSRI class, used in the treatment of depression.
  • shirt-tail — the part of a shirt below the waistline.
  • short-laid — hard-laid.
  • show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
  • shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
  • sibilatory — characterized by hissing or whistling
  • silentiary — someone who keeps silence in court
  • silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
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