11-letter words containing a, d, u, r
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
- hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hydroxyurea — a synthetic compound, CH 4 N 2 O 2 , used in cancer therapy.
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- ill-natured — having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.
- illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- inaugurated — to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin: The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power.
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- industrials — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- ingratitude — the state of being ungrateful; unthankfulness.
- interludial — relating to or resembling an interlude
- interradius — an interradial part or space
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- jack around — to spend time in useless activity
- jaguarundis — Plural form of jaguarundi.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- judicatures — Plural form of judicature.
- judiciaries — Plural form of judiciary.
- jugged hare — a stew made of wild rabbit, usually cooked in an earthenware jug or stone pot.
- jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- juridically — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- launderette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laundresses — Plural form of laundress.
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- lauric acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 12 H 24 O 2 , a fatty acid occurring as the glyceride in many vegetable fats, especially coconut oil and laurel oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, detergents, cosmetics, and lauryl alcohol.
- laze around — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- leucodermia — leucoderma