11-letter words containing r, o, s, a, l
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- rolled oats — oat grains that have been flattened under rollers
- rollerskate — a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
- roman snail — a large edible European snail, Helix pomatia, the usual escargot of menus, erroneously thought to have been introduced to northern Europe by the Romans
- roostertail — a full spray or cloud, as of water in the wake of a speeding boat or dust from a speeding car
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- sacrocostal — relating to the sacrum and the ribs
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- saddle horn — horn (def 19).
- saddle roof — curved covering for a building
- saddle sore — an irritation or sore on a horse caused by the rubbing of a poorly adjusted saddle.
- saddle-sore — an irritation or sore on a horse caused by the rubbing of a poorly adjusted saddle.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- sailor suit — naval uniform
- sales force — team of salespeople
- salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- saltatorial — pertaining to saltation.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- sample room — a room, as in a hotel suite, in which merchandise is displayed for sale to the trade.
- san leandro — a city in W California.
- san lorenzo — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- sand dollar — any of various flat, disklike sea urchins, as Mellita testudinata or Echinarachnius parma, that live on sandy bottoms off the coasts of the U.S.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- sapropelite — a foul-smelling mud
- sarcolemmal — of or relating to the sarcolemma
- sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
- sartorially — of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scalariform — ladderlike.
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- school year — the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- scissortail — Also called scissortailed flycatcher [siz-er-teyld] /ˈsɪz ərˌteɪld/ (Show IPA). a flycatcher, Muscivora forficatus, of the southern U.S., Mexico, and Central America, having a long, deeply forked tail.
- sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
- scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family