11-letter words containing i, u, r
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- auxiliaries — foreign or allied troops serving another nation; mercenaries
- auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
- auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
- avicularium — a protective zooid of a bryozoan colony, having movable jaws that can be snapped shut.
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
- azimuth bar — a device used in measuring azimuths, consisting of a bar with a sighting vane at each end,pivoted at its center, and rotating in a horizontal plane around the center of a compass.
- b1 security — Orange Book
- b2 security — Orange Book
- b3 security — Orange Book
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- bacteriuria — the presence of bacteria in the urine
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
- barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
- barbiturism — chronic poisoning caused by the excessive use of phenobarbital, secobarbital, or other derivative of barbituric acid.
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- barium meal — a preparation of barium sulphate, which is opaque to X-rays, swallowed by a patient before X-ray examination of the upper part of the alimentary canal
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
- bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
- baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- biauricular — having two auricles.
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America