11-letter words containing a, b, u, r
- reattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- recarburize — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- recuperable — capable of recuperation
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- refuellable — capable of being refuelled
- relubricate — to lubricate again or with new lubricant
- remunerable — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- reusability — reuse
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
- ritual bath — a mikvah.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
- rubber game — any game played to break a tie resulting when each side has won the same number of games
- rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
- runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- sauce bercy — Bercy.
- sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking