11-letter words containing g, o, u, r, n, i
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- 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.
- overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- overindulge — eat, do to excess
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- progeniture — procreation
- pronouncing — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- reoccurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
- roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- 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.
- 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.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- surrounding — something that surrounds, as the area, border, etc., around an object or central space: a tile surround for the shower stall.
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
- tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.