11-letter words containing r, e, s, u
- pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- purportless — without purport
- purposeless — having no purpose or apparent meaning.
- purpresture — the wrongful enclosure of or intrusion upon lands, waters, or other property rightfully belonging to the public at large.
- purse seine — a large net towed, usually by two boats, that encloses a school of fish and is then closed at the bottom by means of a line resembling the string formerly used to draw shut the neck of a money pouch or purse
- purse-proud — proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
- purse-seine — to fish using a purse seine.
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quacksalver — a quack doctor.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- quadratures — Plural form of quadrature.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.
- quarrellous — argumentative or given to complaint
- quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
- quarterlies — Plural form of quarterly.
- quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
- quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- quaver rest — a musical rest or silence that lasts for the equivalent of a quaver or eighth note
- queen truss — a truss having queen posts with no king post.
- queensberry — John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquis of, 1844–1900, Scottish nobleman and sponsor of modern boxing rules.
- querulously — full of complaints; complaining.
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- questioners — Plural form of questioner.
- quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
- quizmasters — Plural form of quizmaster.
- race-course — racetrack.
- racecourses — Plural form of racecourse.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- raptureless — without rapture
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- re-exposure — the act, state, or condition of being re-exposed
- re-situated — to put in or on a particular site or place; locate.
- reassurance — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recluseness — the fact or condition of being solitary or recluse; reclusion
- reclusively — in a reclusive manner, as or like a recluse; reclusely
- reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
- recursively — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- reductivism — reductionism.
- refurbisher — a person who refurbishes