11-letter words containing o, s, u, a, r
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- cotylosaurs — Plural form of cotylosaur.
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- counteracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counteract.
- counterbase — a double bass
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crocus sack — a burlap bag.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dinosaurian — pertaining to or of the nature of a dinosaur.
- disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.
- discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- disgracious — Lacking grace; not pleasing; disagreeable.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duster coat — a woman's loose summer coat with wide sleeves and no buttons, popular in the mid-20th century
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).