11-letter words containing o, r, t, l, a, n
- protoplanet — the collection of matter, in the process of condensation, from which a planet is formed.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- rallentando — slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
- 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.
- rationality — the state or quality of being rational.
- rationalize — 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.
- realization — the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
- reallotment — the act or process of reallotting something
- reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
- reclination — to lean or lie back; rest in a recumbent position.
- redactional — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- reinoculate — to inoculate again
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
- reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
- replication — a reply; answer.
- retaliation — the act of retaliating; return of like for like; reprisal.
- 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
- retrolental — located or occurring behind a lens, as of the eye.
- 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.
- robot plane — an unmanned plane
- 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
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- secretional — of or relating to secretion
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- southlander — a person from the south
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- st.-leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air