11-letter words containing a, i, r, d, u
- gain ground — profit or advantage.
- gazundering — Present participle of gazunder.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
- graduations — Plural form of graduation.
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- green audit — the process of assessing the environmental impact of an organization, process, project, product, etc.: A green audit of your home can reveal ways in which you can reduce energy consumption.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- head injury — wound to the head
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- 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
- jaguarundis — Plural form of jaguarundi.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- judicatures — Plural form of judicature.
- judiciaries — Plural form of judiciary.
- 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.
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- 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.
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- lucid dream — a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming and can sometimes influence the course of the dream
- maquiladora — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.