11-letter words containing d, u, r, h
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- murder hunt — a search for a murderer
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- olethreutid — any of numerous brown or gray moths of the family Olethreutidae having mottled or banded wings and forewings, each with a truncated tip, including many crop pests, as the codling moth or oriental fruit moth.
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- 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
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
- rajahmundry — a city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, on the Godavari River.
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rideau hall — (in Canada) the official residence of the Governor General, in Ottawa
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough edges — lack of refinement
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
- rude health — If someone is in rude health, they are strong and healthy.
- rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
- rue the day — If you rue the day that you did something, you are sorry that you did it, because it has had unpleasant results.
- rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- 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.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- show around — guide round a new place
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.