10-letter words containing r, u, d, o
- recidivous — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- recomputed — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- red grouse — a grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus, of the British Isles, a subspecies of willow ptarmigan lacking white winter plumage.
- red liquor — mordant rouge.
- rediscount — to discount again.
- redocument — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- rejoindure — the act of joining again; a reunion
- remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- reoccurred — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- reproducer — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- rescue dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- ridiculous — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
- ring round — If you ring round or ring around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- roll cloud — arcus.
- roll round — to recur, as in a cycle
- roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.
- round clam — quahog.
- round down — express as previous whole number
- round file — circular file.
- round hand — a style of handwriting in which the letters are round, full, and clearly separated.
- round rock — a town in central Texas.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- round trip — a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.
- round turn — a complete turn of a rope or the like around an object.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- routinized — to develop into a regular procedure.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- rudderpost — the vertical member of a stern frame on which the rudder is hung; a sternpost.
- ruddevator — a control surface functioning both as a rudder and as an elevator.
- run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rush order — an order for goods required urgently
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- scordatura — the tuning of a stringed instrument in other than the usual way to facilitate the playing of certain compositions.
- scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.