11-letter words containing d, u, r, s
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
- pressurized — brought to and maintained at an atmospheric pressure higher than that of the surroundings: cooking with pressurized steam.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- purse-proud — proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- quadrantids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadran·tid me·teor show·er) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
- 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.
- quadratures — Plural form of quadrature.
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- radiculitis — inflammation of a spinal nerve root.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- 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.
- rambus dram — (storage) (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. Although it cannot be used as a direct replacement for existing memory, it is likely that it will replace DRAM and SDRAM as the main memory system in personal computers as the bus speeds required by these machines increase. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz. The memory is also only 8 or 9 bits wide, so the bandwidth would increase enormously if it were used in parallel to give 32 or 64-bit memory.
- re-situated — to put in or on a particular site or place; locate.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- reductivism — reductionism.
- resurrected — to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
- resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- 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.
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- rough edges — lack of refinement
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- ruda slaska — a city in S Poland, NW of Katowice.
- rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
- rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
- run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- 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.
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- 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.