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11-letter words containing o, r, a, l, i, s

  • patrologist — a student of patrology.
  • peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
  • personalise — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personalist — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personality — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiolatry — the worship of nature
  • pilot raise — a small raise intended to be enlarged later.
  • piscatorial — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
  • post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • postillator — a writer of postils; an annotator, a postiller
  • postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
  • postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
  • pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
  • prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
  • prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
  • radiologist — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
  • rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
  • ratio scale — a scale of measurement of data which permits the comparison of differences of values; a scale having a fixed zero value. The distances travelled by a projectile, for instance, are measured on a ratio scale since it makes sense to talk of one projectile travelling twice as far as another
  • 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
  • resocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • 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
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • road-trials — a road test
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
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