13-letter words containing o, i, l, s, a
- pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- quasi-totally — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- racialisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of racialization.
- radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- rationalistic — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- relay station — a radio station that receives radio signals and retransmits them, in order to extend their range
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- resublimation — 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.
- retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
- russian olive — oleaster.
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- saint leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- saint-émilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- salmonellosis — food poisoning caused by consumption of food contaminated with bacteria of the genus Salmonella, characterized by the sudden onset of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- sassafras oil — a yellowish or reddish-yellow, aromatic volatile oil distilled from sassafras root, used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine.