11-letter words containing m, r, n
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- restatement — to state again or in a new way.
- retinaculum — Anatomy, Zoology. any of various small structures that hook, clasp, or bind other structures to move them or hold them in place.
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- revenue man — a government agent employed to act against the illegal production of alcohol, esp during the time of Prohibition in the United States
- revisionism — advocacy or approval of revision.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhythm band — a collection of simple percussion instruments used especially with piano accompaniment to teach musical rhythm.
- ribbon worm — any of various slender, unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Nemertea, being able to contract and stretch to an extreme extent.
- riding lamp — a light on a boat or ship showing that it is at anchor
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- ring magnet — a ring-shaped permanent magnet.
- rising damp — moisture problem affecting walls
- robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
- rodomontade — vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
- roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
- roman peace — the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
- roman snail — a large edible European snail, Helix pomatia, the usual escargot of menus, erroneously thought to have been introduced to northern Europe by the Romans
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
- romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rue anemone — a small, North American plant, Anemonella thalictroides, of the buttercup family, having white or pinkish flowers.
- rum-running — the activity of smuggling illicit liquor
- rumgumption — good sense
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rumormonger — a person given to spreading rumors, often maliciously.
- run-of-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
- sacramental — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
- sand martin — the bank swallow.
- 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.
- sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
- santa maria — (italics) the flagship used by Columbus when he made his first voyage of discovery to America in 1492.