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