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11-letter words containing r, o, s, a, l

  • postillator — a writer of postils; an annotator, a postiller
  • postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
  • postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
  • postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
  • precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
  • predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • previsional — characteristic of prevision
  • pro-slavery — favoring slavery.
  • probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
  • processable — capable of being processed.
  • proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
  • pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronatalist — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
  • prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
  • prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • protestable — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
  • provascular — of or relating to procambium
  • provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrolysable — able to be pyrolysed
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quarrellous — argumentative or given to complaint
  • quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
  • radiologist — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
  • rapscallion — a rascal; rogue; scamp.
  • rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • 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
  • rationalise — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
  • rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • rationalist — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
  • recessional — of or relating to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service.
  • regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
  • relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
  • resocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • resveratrol — a compound found in red grapes, mulberries, peanuts, and certain plants, used medicinally as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrosexual — a heterosexual man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance
  • revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
  • rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • 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
  • road-trials — a road test
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
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