11-Letter Words Starting: RAT

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

• structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results

• think rationally; employ logic or reason

• remove irrational quantities from

• any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops

• a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall

• pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken

• the state of having good sense and sound judgment

• the quality of being consistent with or based on logic

• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience

• the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth

• the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

• reason methodologically and logically

• A mechanical device, particularly an automobile, that is worn out, run down, or mechanically unreliable as indicated by noises it makes in operation.

• Any piece of miscellaneous equipment or junk.