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12-letter words containing t, a, l, o, n, e

  • regulation t — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by brokers and dealers to customers for the purchase of securities on margin.
  • regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
  • relationally — in a relational manner
  • relationless — having no family relations
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • relitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
  • replantation — to plant again.
  • repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
  • retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
  • royal antler — the third prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
  • royal tennis — court tennis.
  • saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sectionalize — to render sectional.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
  • solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
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