11-letter words containing m, r, s
- remonstrate — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remorseless — without remorse; merciless; pitiless; relentless.
- rescindment — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- resemblance — the state or fact of resembling; similarity.
- 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.
- restimulate — to stimulate again, reactivate
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- revisionism — advocacy or approval of revision.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rhymesters' — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- rijksmuseum — a museum in Amsterdam housing the national art collection of the Netherlands
- rising damp — moisture problem affecting walls
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
- 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).
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- roots music — reggae, esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- rose madder — a pigment derived from anthraquinone and hydrated oxide of aluminum, characterized chiefly by its reddish color and permanence: used in painting. Compare madder lake (def 2).
- rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- rousseauism — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
- rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- rumbustious — rambunctious.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rumpus room — a recreation room, especially one for children, as in a house.
- rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- sacramental — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- salad cream — Salad cream is a pale-yellow creamy sauce that you eat with salad.
- 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.
- sample rate — (digital signal processing) The number of times an analog signal is measured (sampled) per second. The unit of sample rate is "samples per second". This is often expressed in kiloHertz (kHz). For example, "CD quality" sound has a sample rate of 44 kHz. Compare data rate. See Nyquist frequency.
- sample room — a room, as in a hotel suite, in which merchandise is displayed for sale to the trade.
- 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.