11-letter words containing t, a, s, o, i
- reassertion — a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason: a mere assertion; an unwarranted assertion.
- reassociate — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- reinstation — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- relationist — a person who maintains a theory rooted in the relation between ideas
- reparations — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
- respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
- restationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- 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
- 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.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- rion strait — Lepanto (def 3).
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- road-trials — a road test
- 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).
- rooibos tea — tea prepared from any of several species of Borbonia or Aspalanthus, believed to have tonic properties
- roostertail — a full spray or cloud, as of water in the wake of a speeding boat or dust from a speeding car
- rousseauist — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- 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
- sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
- sailor suit — naval uniform
- 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).
- saint louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- saint-louis — a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
- saint-simon — Comte de, 1760–1825, French philosopher and social scientist.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- saltational — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- saltatorial — pertaining to saltation.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
- 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.
- salutations — the act of saluting.
- salvational — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- san antonio — a city in S Texas: site of the Alamo.