11-letter words containing r, i, a, u
- rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
- running gag — a joke or humorous allusion used recurrently in a play, film, television skit, etc., for a cumulative comic effect.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- ruridecanal — relating to a rural dean
- rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- safari suit — a suit consisting of a bush jacket and matching trousers.
- sagittarius — zodiac sign: Archer
- sailor suit — naval uniform
- sanctuarize — to give sanctuary to
- sanguinaria — the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
- saturnalian — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- saturninity — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- saussuritic — relating to, resembling, or having saussurite
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scar tissue — connective tissue that has contracted and become dense and fibrous.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- semi-mature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- semiamateur — retaining amateur status but receiving prize money or support, as from a sponsor, to cover training expenses.
- semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- serrulation — serrulate condition or form.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- sesquialter — in the ratio of 3:2
- share issue — When there is a share issue, shares in a company are made available for people to buy.
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singularize — to make singular.
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish