11-letter words containing n, e, u, r, o
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- deuteronomy — the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- disenshroud — to free from a shroud
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- do a runner — escape, run away
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- druid stone — sarsen.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- ego surfing — the act of searching for your own name on the internet
- elusoriness — the state or quality of being elusory
- elutriation — The process of separating the lighter particles from the heavier ones by means of an upward directed stream of gas or liquid.