11-letter words containing r, u, s, m
- circumburst — (physics, astronomy) Surrounding a burst.
- circumcised — (of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
- circumciser — to remove the prepuce of (a male), especially as a religious rite.
- circumcises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumcise.
- circumfused — Simple past tense and past participle of circumfuse.
- circumfuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumfuse.
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
- 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
- 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
- computerese — the jargon and terminology associated with computers
- computerise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerize.
- computerist — a computer user
- consumerism — Consumerism is the belief that it is good to buy and use a lot of goods.
- consumerist — Consumerist economies are ones which encourage people to consume a lot of goods.
- consumerize — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- consummator — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- demetrius i — (Poliorcetes) 337?–283 b.c, king of Macedonia 294–286 (son of Antigonus I).
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.