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13-letter words containing l, o, n, i, e

  • renationalize — to move (an industry, which was once under government ownership,) from private to government ownership once again
  • republication — publication anew.
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • reutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
  • revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
  • revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
  • revolutionize — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • rolling stone — person: nomadic
  • romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • rote learning — memorization by repetition
  • royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
  • rum rebellion — the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps, caused by his interference in their trading activities, esp in the trafficking of rum
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • saint leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
  • saint-émilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
  • salmonellosis — food poisoning caused by consumption of food contaminated with bacteria of the genus Salmonella, characterized by the sudden onset of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
  • san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • seasonability — fact of being seasonable
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
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