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11-letter words containing o, r, d, u, s

  • overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
  • overinsured — to guarantee against loss or harm.
  • overmuscled — having muscles developed to excess
  • overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
  • overtedious — extremely tedious
  • pass around — distribute, circulate
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
  • piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
  • prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
  • protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
  • purse-proud — proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • radiocesium — cesium 137.
  • radiosodium — the radioactive isotope of sodium having an atomic mass of 24 and a half-life of 14.9 hours: used as a tracer in biochemistry.
  • rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • rough edges — lack of refinement
  • round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
  • 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
  • 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
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shuddersome — tending to shudder
  • slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • sodium-free — (of food) containing less than 5 mg of sodium per serving
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