11-letter words containing r, e, c, t, i, s
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- 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
- reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reactionist — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reassociate — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- rectiserial — arranged in straight rows
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- reminiscent — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- rescindment — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- reselection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- resistencia — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- resuscitate — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- revivescent — reviving
- reviviscent — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- rickettsial — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacred site — a place of great significance
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- scar tissue — connective tissue that has contracted and become dense and fibrous.
- scarabaeist — a person who studies the beetle family Scarabaeidae
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- sclerotitis — scleritis.
- sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.