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12-letter words containing n, o, r, s, e

  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • restauration — restoration
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • resupination — a resupinate condition.
  • resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
  • resuspension — the act of suspending.
  • retentionist — a person who advocates the retention of something, esp capital punishment
  • retrocession — to cede back: to retrocede a territory.
  • retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
  • retroversion — a looking or turning back.
  • reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
  • reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
  • reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
  • revisitation — the act of visiting.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • rhode island — US state
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
  • river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
  • roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • romney marsh — one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
  • roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
  • rooflessness — the state of having no roof
  • rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • root version — The initial value of an object in a change management system.
  • rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
  • rootlessness — having no roots.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
  • rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
  • roseate tern — a seabird, Sterna dougallii, of the tern family Sternidae
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
  • royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
  • royal tennis — court tennis.
  • run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • running shoe — trainer, sneaker
  • russian zone — a zone in Germany controlled by the Soviet Union 1945–89.
  • saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
  • san fernando — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
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