11-letter words containing n, o, u, r
- interocular — being, or situated, between the eyes.
- interosseus — (anatomy) Any of various muscles located between bones.
- intervenous — (anatomy, botany) Between veins.
- intra muros — within the walls, as of a city.
- intrafusion — The act of pouring into a vessel.
- intraocular — located or occurring within or administered through the eye.
- intravenous — within a vein.
- introducers — Plural form of introducer.
- introducing — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introductor — (obsolete) One who introduces.
- invigourate — Alternative spelling of invigorate.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- involuntary — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- iron-pumper — a person who pumps iron; weightlifter.
- irondequoit — a city in W New York.
- irreduction — the state or condition of not being reduced
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isochronous — isochronal.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- isoxsuprine — a sympathomimetic vasodilator, C 18 H 23 NO 3 , used in certain types of peripheral vascular disease.
- jack around — to spend time in useless activity
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- journalizer — One who records events in a journal.
- journalling — journal
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- junior high — lower secondary school
- junior miss — a teenage girl, especially a subdebutante.
- juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- jure divino — by divine law.
- jure humano — by human law.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knock rummy — a variety of rummy for two to six players, in which a player can end a game by laying down a hand with any number of points in cards not included in sets.
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- labor union — an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.
- languourous — Alternative form of languorous.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.