11-letter words containing r, o, t, h, l
- righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- riot shield — Riot shields are pieces of equipment made of transparent plastic which are used by the police to protect themselves against angry crowds.
- roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
- roll on sth — If you say roll on something, you mean that you would like it to come soon, because you are looking forward to it.
- rope-length — a length of standard climbing rope, normally 50–60m
- school trip — educational outing
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- south tyrol — a former part of the Austrian state of Tyrol: ceded to Italy in 1919, becoming the Bolzano and Trento provinces of the Trentino-Alto Adige Autonomous Region. Area: 14 037 sq km (5420 sq miles)
- southlander — a person from the south
- southwardly — toward the south
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- stadtholder — stadholder.
- stakeholder — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stallholder — A stallholder is a person who sells goods at a stall in a market.
- stockholder — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
- tachysterol — an isomer of ergosterol, C28H44O, formed during the production of calciferol by the irradiation of ergosterol
- taurocholic — of or derived from taurocholic acid.
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- terry-cloth — the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
- theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
- theriolatry — the worship of theriomorphic deities or deities that are a combination of human and animal forms
- thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- third floor — the storey of a building immediately above the second and three floors up from the ground
- third world — the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty.
- thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrasonical — boastful; vainglorious.
- three-color — having or characterized by the use of three colors.
- throatlatch — a strap that passes under a horse's throat and helps to hold a bridle or halter in place.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- titleholder — a person who holds a title.