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  • go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
  • gomme syrup — simple syrup.
  • green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
  • ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
  • groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
  • group grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
  • group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
  • group-grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
  • hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
  • heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
  • hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
  • homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
  • horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
  • hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
  • house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
  • house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
  • house-proud — taking pride in one's house and housekeeping.
  • housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
  • houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
  • houseperson — someone who manages a household; househusband or housewife.
  • hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
  • hypernymous — Having the qualities of a hypernym.
  • imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • imponderous — (obsolete) imponderable.
  • importunate — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
  • importunely — (obsolete) In an importune manner.
  • incorrupted — not corrupted
  • infopreneur — a person whose business is gathering, processing, and providing information to advertising, marketing, and other firms.
  • inopportune — not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit.
  • intercouple — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
  • intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
  • iron-pumper — a person who pumps iron; weightlifter.
  • isoxsuprine — a sympathomimetic vasodilator, C 18 H 23 NO 3 , used in certain types of peripheral vascular disease.
  • iteroparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit more than once (usually many times) before dying
  • juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
  • krugersdorp — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa, NW of Johannesburg.
  • leper house — a hospital for lepers; leprosarium.
  • lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
  • leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
  • leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
  • long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
  • lorem ipsum — (text)   A common piece of text used as mock-content when testing a given page layout or font. The following text is often used: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." This continues at length and variously. The text is not really Greek, but badly garbled Latin. It started life as extracted phrases from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" ("The Extremes of Good and Evil"), which read: Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur? At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat. Translation: But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. -- Translation by H. Rackham, from his 1914 edition of De Finibus. However, since textual fidelity was unimportant to the goal of having random text to fill a page, it has degraded over the centuries, into "Lorem ipsum...". The point of using this text, or some other text of incidental intelligibility, is that it has a more-or-less normal (for English and Latin, at least) distribution of ascenders, descenders, and word-lengths, as opposed to just using "abc 123 abc 123", "Content here content here", or the like. The text is often used when previewing the layout of a document, as the use of more understandable text would distract the user from the layout being examined. A related technique is greeking.
  • loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
  • loupcervier — the Canada lynx.
  • luminophore — a molecule or group of molecules that emits light when illuminated.
  • lumpenprole — a member of the lumpenproletariat.
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