11-letter words containing r, o, a, d, u
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- laze around — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
- loll around — If you loll around or loll about, you enjoy yourself by sitting or lying in a relaxed way.
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- look around — examine surrounding area
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- malodourous — Alternative form of malodorous.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- manoeuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuver.
- maquiladora — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- memorandums — Plural form of memorandum.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- mill around — walk about
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- move around — be mobile, active
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- non-accrued — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- nonauditory — not auditory, not related to hearing or its functions
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nongraduate — a person who is not a graduate of an educational institution
- nose around — pry, snoop
- nostradamus — (Michel de Nostredame) 1503–66, French astrologer.
- octandrious — having eight stamens.
- old russian — Russian as used in documents before 1600. Abbreviation: ORuss.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- order about — to bully or domineer