11-letter words containing i, o, d, u, s
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- non-dualism — the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.
- nondiscount — not subject to a discount
- nondisjunct — Not disjunct.
- nonindustry — not related to a particular industry
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- octandrious — having eight stamens.
- odious debt — sovereign debt incurred through activities which do not serve the best interests of the nation, esp when incurred by a despotic, tyrannical, or otherwise unjust and oppresive regime. Such debts are typically considered invalid and written off after the regime is deposed
- odoriferous — yielding or diffusing an odor.
- oedipus rex — a tragedy (c430 b.c.) by Sophocles.
- old russian — Russian as used in documents before 1600. Abbreviation: ORuss.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
- outspeeding — Present participle of outspeed.
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- outstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of outstrip.
- overinsured — to guarantee against loss or harm.
- overtedious — extremely tedious
- oxysulphide — a compound containing an element combined with oxygen and sulphur
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
- pediococcus — any of several spherical, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, producing acid and clouding in beer and wort.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- pilot study — trial done for research
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudopodia — pseudopod.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- 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.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- 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.
- second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
- sesquioxide — an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen and two of another element, as aluminum oxide, Al 2 O 3 .
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
- slime mould — any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)