11-letter words containing r, i, a, u
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- break it up — stop fighting
- breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
- californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
- calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- canalicular — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a canaliculus.
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
- capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
- caprimulgid — (zoology) Any of the Caprimulgidae, or nightjar family.
- carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- caricatural — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- caricatured — Simple past tense and past participle of caricature.
- caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- carniferous — bearing flesh.
- carnivorous — Carnivorous animals eat meat.
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
- cellularity — pertaining to or characterized by cellules or cells, especially minute compartments or cavities.
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries