12-letter words containing r, a, d, i, l, s
- near islands — a group of islands of SW Alaska, the smallest and westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, including Attu.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- nonsteroidal — of or relating to a substance that is not a steroid but has certain similar physiological effects.
- north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
- radical axis — the line such that tangents drawn from any point of the line to two given circles are equal in length.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- rhode island — US state
- rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
- russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- sidereal day — the interval between two successive passages of the vernal equinox over the meridian, being about four minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- six-year-old — being six years in age