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11-letter words containing r, u, s, o

  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
  • rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • ricinus oil — castor oil.
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
  • rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
  • rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
  • roots music — reggae, esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized
  • rose quartz — a rose-red to pink variety of crystalline quartz usually found in massive form and used as a gem or ornamental stone.
  • rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
  • rough edges — lack of refinement
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
  • rough-house — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
  • round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
  • rousseauism — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • rousseauist — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • routineness — a customary or regular course of procedure.
  • royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • rugosa rose — a shrub, Rosa rugosa, having densely bristled stems, wrinkled leaves, and fragrant red or white flowers.
  • rumbustious — rambunctious.
  • ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
  • rumpus room — a recreation room, especially one for children, as in a house.
  • run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
  • sacré coeur — a basilica in Montmartre, Paris, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • sage grouse — a large grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, of the sagebrush regions of western North America, having plumage of gray, buff, and black.
  • sailor suit — naval uniform
  • sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sarcomatous — any of various malignant tumors composed of neoplastic cells resembling embryonic connective tissue.
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
  • 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.
  • sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
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