11-letter words containing s, i, n, o, r
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- reselection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
- responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- responsions — the first of three examinations which were required for a degree at the University of Oxford prior to 1960
- restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- 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
- reversioner — a person who possesses a reversion.
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- revisionism — advocacy or approval of revision.
- revisionist — an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- ricinus oil — castor oil.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- rion strait — Lepanto (def 3).
- rising trot — a horse's trot in which the rider rises from the saddle every second beat
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- 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
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- rose-tinted — excessively optimistic
- rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- routineness — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- saint croix — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.