11-letter words containing r, o, d, c
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
- rock-ribbed — having ribs or ridges of rock: the rock-ribbed coast of Maine.
- rocket sled — a sled propelled along a long track by rocket engines, for testing the effects of high rates of acceleration and deceleration.
- rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
- rodenticide — a substance or preparation for killing rodents.
- roll-necked — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- rood screen — a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church.
- root doctor — herb doctor.
- rope dancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- rotor cloud — a cloud within and around which the air is rotating about a horizontal axis, occurring in the lee of a large mountain barrier.
- round dance — a dance performed by couples and characterized by circular or revolving movement, as the waltz.
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
- sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcoidosis — a disease of unknown cause, characterized by granulomatous tubercles of the skin, lymph nodes, lungs, eyes, and other structures.
- sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
- sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- screen door — A screen door is a door made of fine netting which is on the outside of the main door of a house. It is used to keep insects out when the main door is open.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- second-rate — of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second-rate poet.
- second-tier — not in the first rank
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- sideroscope — an apparatus for detecting splinters of iron or steel in the eye.
- siecle d'or — the period of the reign of Louis XIV of France.
- sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
- skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- sockdologer — a decisive blow or remark
- solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.