11-letter words containing r, e, o, p, s
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- reject shop — a shop that sells damaged or imperfect products that cannot be sold at the full price
- repair shop — garage, body shop: for vehicles
- reparations — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- repetitious — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- reposedness — the quality or state of being in repose or settled
- representor — (in contract law) a person who makes a legal representation about a contract to a representee
- reprocessed — (of wool) previously spun and woven but not used, as tailors' clippings.
- reprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
- responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsions — the first of three examinations which were required for a degree at the University of Oxford prior to 1960
- rest period — a period of rest
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- 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.
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rhizosphere — the area of soil that surrounds the roots of a plant and is altered by the plant's root growth, nutrients, respiration, etc.
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- robespierre — Maximilien François Marie Isidore de [mak-see-mee-lyan frahn-swa ma-ree ee-zee-dawr duh] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa maˈri i ziˈdɔr də/ (Show IPA), 1758–94, French lawyer and revolutionary leader.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
- sample room — a room, as in a hotel suite, in which merchandise is displayed for sale to the trade.
- sand hopper — beach flea.
- sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- scorekeeper — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- sea-poacher — poacher1 (def 2).
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.