11-letter words containing n, o, a, t, i, l
- retinal rod — any of the elongated cylindrical cells in the retina of the eye, containing the visual purple (rhodopsin), which are sensitive to dim light but not to colour
- revaluation — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- 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
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- rotary kiln — type of industrial oven
- sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
- saint louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- saint-louis — a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- saltational — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- salutations — the act of saluting.
- salvational — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- seasonality — the state or quality of being seasonal or dependent on the seasons: the seasonality of Halloween costumes.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- sensational — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sigillation — the act of sealing
- situational — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- stellionate — any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, especially one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- sublimation — 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.
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
- taxonomical — the science or technique of classification.
- teetotaling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.