11-letter words containing a, r, d, o, u
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- outdoorsman — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- overeducate — to educate too much
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
- parodontium — periodontium.
- pass around — distribute, circulate
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadrillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radiosodium — the radioactive isotope of sodium having an atomic mass of 24 and a half-life of 14.9 hours: used as a tracer in biochemistry.
- rally round — show solidarity
- read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
- readjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- reannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.