12-letter words containing r, o, t, a, l
- repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
- retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
- retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
- rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
- rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
- rolled roast — meat that has had the bones removed and been rolled and tied for roasting.
- roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- rooster tail — the wake thrown up behind a speeding boat or the dust thrown up behind a speeding vehicle.
- rotary table — A rotary table is a revolving part which turns the drill string.
- rotary valve — a valve that rotates continuously or through an arc to open and close.
- rotflmaoastc — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off and scaring the cat. The superlative form of ROTFL.
- rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- royal antler — the third prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
- royal octavo — a book size, 61⁄4 by 10 inches
- royal quarto — a book size, 10 by 121⁄2 inches
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- ruralization — to make rural.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sacroiliitis — the inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
- salmon trout — a European trout, Salmo trutta.
- salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
- salutatorium — a porch or room in a monastery or church serving as a meeting or almsgiving place for monks or priests and the laity.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.