11-letter words containing n, o, u, r
- octonocular — eight-eyed
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
- old country — the original home country of an immigrant or a person's ancestors, especially a European country.
- old russian — Russian as used in documents before 1600. Abbreviation: ORuss.
- ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
- omnifarious — of all forms, varieties, or kinds.
- omnivourous — Misspelling of omnivorous.
- on the hour — If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour.
- on the turn — at the point of change
- onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
- oncoviruses — Plural form of oncovirus.
- onerousness — The state or characteristic of of being onerous.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- open ground — uncovered or unobstructed ground in a wide open space
- open source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- open-source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- oppertunity — Misspelling of opportunity.
- opportunely — appropriate, favorable, or suitable: an opportune phrase for the occasion.
- opportunism — the policy or practice, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs, of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to expediency or effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles.
- opportunist — a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles: He is an extreme opportunist and always thinks the ends justify the means.
- opportunity — an appropriate or favorable time or occasion: Their meeting afforded an opportunity to exchange views.
- oppurtunity — Misspelling of opportunity.
- orange rust — a disease of blackberries and raspberries, characterized by an orange, powdery mass of spores on the undersides of the leaves and stunted, misshapen foliage, caused by a rust fungus, Gymnoconia interstitialis.
- organistrum — a stringed instrument played by two people
- ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- ostensorium — ostensory.
- ostpreussen — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- out of turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- out-country — a remote area or region; hinterland.
- out-migrant — a person who out-migrates.
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outcropping — Geology. a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth. the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- outcrossing — Present participle of outcross.
- outdoorsman — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outdoorsmen — Plural form of outdoorsman.
- outdrinking — Present participle of outdrink.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
- outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
- outintrigue — to surpass in intrigue
- outmaneuver — to outwit, defeat, or frustrate by maneuvering.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- outorganize — to overcome by organization
- outpourings — Plural form of outpouring.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- outsmarting — Present participle of outsmart.