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11-letter words containing n, o, u, d

  • readjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
  • reannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • reconducted — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
  • rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
  • reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
  • reinduction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
  • reintroduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
  • repudiation — the act of repudiating.
  • road-runner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
  • roll around — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
  • roll-around — equipped with wheels or casters so as to be easily movable from one location to another: a roll-around kitchen counter.
  • root around — rummage
  • root nodule — a swelling on the root of a leguminous plant, such as the pea or clover, that contains bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, capable of nitrogen fixation
  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round angle — perigon.
  • round dance — a dance performed by couples and characterized by circular or revolving movement, as the waltz.
  • round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • round-robin — a sequence or series.
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • roundarched — having semicircular arches
  • roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
  • running dog — Disparaging. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey: to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • 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.
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • 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.
  • send around — to put into circulation
  • sensurround — a sound reproduction system used esp in cinemas, in which low-frequency output causes bodily sensations in the audience, resulting in a feeling of involvement in the film
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
  • smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
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