11-letter words containing s, i, n, t, r
- restiveness — impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
- restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- restringent — (of medicines and chemicals) causing contraction of body tissues, checking blood flow, or restricting secretions of fluids
- resultingly — as a result.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- resynthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
- 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.
- retiredness — the state or quality of being retired or in retirement
- 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
- revisionist — an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- revivescent — reviving
- reviviscent — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- rightsizing — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- rion strait — Lepanto (def 3).
- rising star — up-and-coming performer
- rising trot — a horse's trot in which the rider rises from the saddle every second beat
- risk-taking — courting danger or loss
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- 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).
- rose-tinted — excessively optimistic
- routineness — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- 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.
- sabbatarian — a person who observes the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the Sabbath.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
- saint clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
- 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.
- sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- sand martin — the bank swallow.
- santa maria — (italics) the flagship used by Columbus when he made his first voyage of discovery to America in 1492.
- 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.
- saturninity — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- scarlatinal — scarlet fever.
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.