11-letter words containing r, a, d, i, o, l
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- rotary dial — dial (def 4).
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- tailor-made — tailored.
- tetraploidy — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- tordesillas — a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.
- traditional — of or relating to tradition.
- trapezoidal — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trimodality — (of a distribution) having three modes.
- tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.
- unmoralized — devoid of morality
- unpolarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- utgard-loki — a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name (Skrymir)
- valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
- varicelloid — resembling varicella.
- varicolored — having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.
- vasodilator — a nerve or drug that causes vasodilatation.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- world war i — the war (1914–18), fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, in which the Allies (principally France, Russia, Britain, Italy after 1915, and the US after 1917) defeated the Central Powers (principally Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). The war was precipitated by the assassination of Austria's crown prince (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 and swiftly developed its major front in E France, where millions died in static trench warfare. After the October Revolution (1917) the Bolsheviks ended Russian participation in the war (Dec 15, 1917). The exhausted Central Powers agreed to an armistice on Nov 11, 1918 and quickly succumbed to internal revolution, before being forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) and other treaties
- worm lizard — any of numerous burrowing, primarily legless lizards of the suborder Amphisbaenia, mostly inhabiting tropical areas and resembling an earthworm in shape.
- yorba linda — a city in SW California.