11-letter words containing i, n, c, o, r, u
- ricinus oil — castor oil.
- roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
- rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
- rouen lilac — a shrub, Syringa chinensis, of France, having clusters of fragrant, lilac-purple flowers.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- 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.
- skin colour — the colour of a person's skin, ie Black, White, etc
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- 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.
- ulcerogenic — producing or inducing the formation of an ulcer.
- ultrasonics — the branch of science that deals with the effects of sound waves above human perception.
- unconfirmed — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- uncontrived — obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story.
- underaction — inadequate activity
- underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
- unicolorate — of one colour
- unicolorous — (of antennae, head, body, etc) of one colour
- unicoloured — of one uniform colour
- unisotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
- unit record — Computers. a single unit of input or output, as a punch card or line of printout.
- unit vector — a vector having a length of one unit.
- unofficered — having no officer or officers
- unpatriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- unprophetic — not prophetic, not seeing future events correctly
- unreckoning — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- unrejoicing — not joyful; sad
- unscissored — uncut
- unveracious — (of a person) not veracious; not tending to speak the truth; untruthful
- uranoscopid — any fish of the family Uranoscopidae, comprising the stargazers.
- urodynamics — the study and measurement of the flow of urine in the urinary tract
- uronic acid — any of a group of organic acids, as glucuronic acid, derived from oxidation of aldose sugars and occurring in urine.
- zinciferous — yielding or containing zinc.