11-letter words containing m, u, r, e
- pure-minded — having a mind that is free from moral taint or defilement
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quadrennium — a period of four years.
- quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
- quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
- quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
- quechumaran — a proposed language stock comprising Quechua and Aymara
- quinquereme — (history, nautical) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having five banks of oars.
- quizmasters — Plural form of quizmaster.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- re-argument — the process or act of rearguing a legal case, issue, etc
- real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
- rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
- recountment — the act or process of recounting or reciting something
- recruitment — the act or process of recruiting.
- red mercury — a supposedly radioactive substance that could be used in a bomb made from nuclear waste, widely believed to be part of a confidence trick in which gangsters sold useless material to terrorists in the early 1990s
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reformulate — to formulate again.
- remunerable — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- remunerated — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- remunerator — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- renumerated — to represent numbers by symbols.
- requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- requitement — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- restimulate — to stimulate again, reactivate
- retinaculum — Anatomy, Zoology. any of various small structures that hook, clasp, or bind other structures to move them or hold them in place.
- revenue man — a government agent employed to act against the illegal production of alcohol, esp during the time of Prohibition in the United States
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rijksmuseum — a museum in Amsterdam housing the national art collection of the Netherlands
- river-mouth — an estuary
- roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
- rousseauism — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- rubber game — any game played to break a tie resulting when each side has won the same number of games
- rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
- rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rue anemone — a small, North American plant, Anemonella thalictroides, of the buttercup family, having white or pinkish flowers.
- rum truffle — a sweet resembling an edible fungus, of the European genus Tuber, in shape, flavoured with rum
- rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
- rummage out — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- rumormonger — a person given to spreading rumors, often maliciously.
- run-of-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.