11-letter words containing r, u, n, i, g
- reoccurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- resultingly — as a result.
- revaluating — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
- roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubber ring — an air-filled ring made of rubber, used as a swimming aid
- rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- rum-running — the activity of smuggling illicit liquor
- rumgumption — good sense
- running dog — Disparaging. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey: to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.
- running fix — a fix made from a moving vessel or aircraft from observations made at different times, the course and distance run between the observations being considered.
- running gag — a joke or humorous allusion used recurrently in a play, film, television skit, etc., for a cumulative comic effect.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- sanguinaria — the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
- 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.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- sicknursing — the nursing of the sick
- singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singularize — to make singular.
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar basin — sugar bowl.
- sui generis — of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique.
- summerising — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- superceding — supersede.
- superseding — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- supersinger — an exceptional singer
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.