13-letter words containing s, t, a, n, o
- quaternionist — a mathematician who works with quaternions
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- questionaries — Plural form of questionary.
- questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
- racialisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of racialization.
- radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
- radio station — station (def 8).
- raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
- raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- rationalistic — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reassignation — an appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
- reassociation — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
- recessionista — a person whose clothes, whether cheap, second-hand, or suitably subdued, are considered appropriate to an economic downturn
- recitationist — someone who gives recitations
- reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recreationist — a person who advocates that national parks, seashores, lakes, etc., be preserved in their natural state for recreation, farming, or scientific study.
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- relay station — a radio station that receives radio signals and retransmits them, in order to extend their range
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
- resegregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rosetta stone — a stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
- rotation axis — an imaginary line through a crystal about which the crystal may be rotated a specified number of degrees and be brought back to its original position.
- rotation-axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.