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11-letter words containing g, i, o, r

  • ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
  • riomaggiore — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • rip-roaring — boisterously wild and exciting; riotous: Have a rip-roaring good time.
  • rising trot — a horse's trot in which the rider rises from the saddle every second beat
  • river grove — a town in NE Illinois.
  • river rouge — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • road bridge — a bridge for road traffic
  • road racing — a competitive event of racing in automobiles, motorcycles, or bicycles over public roads or a twisting course simulating a public road, as opposed to a closed, banked track or a drag strip.
  • roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
  • robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
  • rock pigeon — rock dove.
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
  • roentgenize — to subject to the action of x-rays.
  • rolling pin — a cylinder of wood or other material, usually with a short handle at each end, for rolling out dough.
  • root bridge — (communications, hardware, networking)   A bridge which continuously transmits network topology information to other bridges, using the spanning tree protocol, in order to notify all other bridges on the network when topology changes are required. This means that a network is able to reconfigure itself whenever a network link (e.g. another bridge) fails, so an alternative path can be found. The presence of a root bridge also prevents loops from forming in the network. The root bridge is where the paths that frames take through the network they are assigned. It should be located centrally on the network to provide the shortest path to other links on the network. Unlike other bridges, the root bridge always forwards frames out over all of its ports. Every network should only have one root bridge. It should have the lowest bridge ID number.
  • root ginger — the rhizome of the ginger plant.
  • ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
  • rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
  • rouge croix — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • rumgumption — good sense
  • 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.
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • 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.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • seigniorage — something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
  • seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • sermonizing — the act of talking as if delivering a sermon
  • serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
  • serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
  • service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
  • shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • short sight — myopia
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
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