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11-letter words containing r, o, t, a, u

  • crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
  • crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
  • crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
  • crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
  • cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
  • crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
  • cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
  • cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
  • curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
  • customaries — Plural form of customary.
  • customarily — according to custom; usually
  • cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
  • decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
  • decurvation — the act of curving downwards
  • degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
  • demodulator — a device used in demodulation
  • demy quarto — a book size, 113⁄4 by 85⁄8 inches
  • depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
  • deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
  • deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
  • deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
  • dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
  • dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
  • disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
  • dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • duster coat — a woman's loose summer coat with wide sleeves and no buttons, popular in the mid-20th century
  • eave trough — gutter (def 3).
  • eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
  • edp auditor — (job)   A person who analyses system functions and operations to determine adequate security and controls. An EDP analyst evaluates systems and operational procedures and reports findings to senior management. He writes ad hoc report programs using 4GLs and specialised audit software.
  • edulcorated — Simple past tense and past participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcorator — a device that supplies small quantities of a liquid to a mixture
  • ejaculatory — Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
  • elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
  • elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
  • elutriation — The process of separating the lighter particles from the heavier ones by means of an upward directed stream of gas or liquid.
  • emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
  • enquiration — an inquiry
  • enumeration — The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
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