11-letter words containing d, r, o, g, u
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- overindulge — eat, do to excess
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough edges — lack of refinement
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- round angle — perigon.
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- running dog — Disparaging. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey: to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
- sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- surrounding — something that surrounds, as the area, border, etc., around an object or central space: a tile surround for the shower stall.
- unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
- unconverged — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
- undangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- undergaoler — jail.
- underground — beneath the surface of the ground: traveling underground by subway.
- undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
- unglorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- unguerdoned — unrewarded
- unmortgaged — (esp of a title to property) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
- unorganized — not organized; without organic structure.
- unparagoned — having no paragon; peerless
- unpardoning — not forgiving
- upgradation — the process, state, or act of upgrading
- uredo stage — the summer stage in certain rust fungi when uredinia are produced.
- utgard-loki — a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name (Skrymir)
- wonder drug — a drug, usually recently discovered or developed, noted for its startling curative effect, as an antibiotic or sulfa drug.
- wood grouse — the capercaillie.
- woodturning — The action of shaping wood with a lathe.