11-letter words containing r, u, s, o
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- asteraceous — belonging to the Asterasceae, an alternative name for the plant family Compositae.
- asteropaeus — a Trojan ally slain by Achilles.
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- asyncronous — (spelling) It's spelled "asynchronous".
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atrabilious — irritable
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- attenuators — Plural form of attenuator.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- auditorship — the position or function of auditor
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- austronesia — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
- authorising — Present participle of authorise.
- authorities — the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.
- autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
- autodialers — Plural form of autodialer.
- autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
- autoreverse — a system in a tape player that automatically reverses the tape and plays another track when one track has finished
- autostradas — Plural form of autostrada.
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- autoworkers — Plural form of autoworker.
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- boss around — order about