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11-letter words containing n, o, s, a, l

  • psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
  • pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
  • rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
  • rationalise — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
  • rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • rationalist — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • recessional — of or relating to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service.
  • regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
  • relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
  • 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.
  • rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
  • 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
  • ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
  • sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
  • saddle horn — horn (def 19).
  • 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.
  • salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
  • 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
  • salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
  • salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
  • 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.
  • salvadorian — El Salvador.
  • salvational — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
  • san anselmo — a city in W California.
  • san leandro — a city in W California.
  • san lorenzo — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • sand dollar — any of various flat, disklike sea urchins, as Mellita testudinata or Echinarachnius parma, that live on sandy bottoms off the coasts of the U.S.
  • sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
  • sao goncalo — a city in SE Brazil, NE of Rio de Janeiro.
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
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