11-letter words containing n, a, r, i, s
- redesignate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- reinstation — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- reinsurance — the process or business of reinsuring.
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
- renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
- reparations — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- residential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- resin canal — a tubular, intercellular opening containing resin, often found in the wood and needles of gymnosperms
- resin-canal — a tube or duct in a woody stem or a leaf, especially in conifers, lined with glandular epithelium that secretes resins.
- resistencia — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
- restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- ridesharing — of or relating to the sharing of rides or transportation, especially among commuters: The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program.
- riding sail — a triangular sail set on the aftermost mast of a vessel, especially a fishing vessel, to head it into the wind; trysail.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- ringed seal — an Arctic seal, Phoca hispida, having irregular, pale, ring-shaped markings around its body.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- rion strait — Lepanto (def 3).
- rising damp — moisture problem affecting walls
- rising star — up-and-coming performer
- risk-taking — courting danger or loss
- river basin — the area of land drained by a river and its branches.
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- 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).
- rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- sabbatarian — a person who observes the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the Sabbath.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacred nine — the Muses.
- sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.