11-letter words containing r, o, m, u
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bumper crop — large harvest
- bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- 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.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- 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
- catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chromium 51 — the radioactive isotope of chromium having a mass number 51 and a half-life of 27.8 days: used as a tracer.
- church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- circumvolve — to (cause to) turn around
- cirrocumuli — Plural form of cirrocumulus.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- coat armour — a coat of arms
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- collutorium — collutory.
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- come up for — When someone or something comes up for consideration or action of some kind, the time arrives when they have to be considered or dealt with.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- commissures — Plural form of commissure.
- commutators — Plural form of commutator.
- compressure — the act of compressing.
- compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels
- compurgator — one who testified in a compurgation
- computerate — If someone is computerate, they have enough skill and knowledge to be able to use a computer.