11-letter words containing s, a, l, t, n
- 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.
- rattlesnake — any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
- real tennis — an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled indoor court with various openings, a sloping-roofed corridor along three sides, and a buttress on the fourth side
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- relatedness — associated; connected.
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
- releasement — the act of releasing from confinement or responsibility
- residential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- resultantly — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- retranslate — to translate (something that has already been translated)
- 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
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- sacramental — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
- saint clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
- saint felix — Saint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
- saint kilda — a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic, in the Outer Hebrides: uninhabited since 1930; bird sanctuary
- saint louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
- saint lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- saint-louis — a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- salpingitis — inflammation of a salpinx.
- saltational — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- saltishness — the condition of being saltish
- salutations — the act of saluting.
- salvational — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- sand castle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- sand-castle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
- santa clara — a city in central Cuba.
- santa claus — a benevolent figure of legend, associated with Saint Nicholas, supposed to bring gifts to children on Christmas Eve.
- santa paula — a city in SW California.
- santa tecla — a city in SW El Salvador, just SW of San Salvador.
- satin glass — an American art glassware having colored glass set into indentations in a thickness of opaque glass, the whole covered with clear glass and etched slightly with acid.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- saturnalian — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.