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12-letter words containing r, e, l, a, t, o

  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • small stores — personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base
  • soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
  • solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
  • solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
  • solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
  • solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • sorosilicate — any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-roller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • teleoperator — a robotic device controlled from a distance by a human operator: usually used to provide safety for the operator, as in working with radioactive materials
  • teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
  • tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
  • tetrapyrrole — a chemical formed from four pyrrole rings
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the old dart — England
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
  • theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
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