10-letter words containing r, u
- autodialer — An electronic device that dials telephone numbers randomly or from a list and may also leave messages and request information.
- autoerotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
- autoformat — Lb transitive To cause the layout of (a document) to be created or edited without further effort by the execution of a program.
- autografts — Plural form of autograft.
- autographs — Plural form of autograph.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autoloader — stack loader
- automakers — Plural form of automaker.
- autorepeat — Any feature that repeats an action automatically.
- autorotate — (of a rotor) to rotate around a central axis powered by aerodynamic forces
- autoroutes — Plural form of autoroute.
- autostrada — an Italian motorway
- autotrophs — Plural form of autotroph.
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- autotropic — Growing in a straight line.
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- autoworker — An autoworker is a person who works in the automobile manufacturing industry.
- auxocardia — enlargement of the heart, as by hypertrophy or dilatation.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- auxospores — Plural form of auxospore.
- auxotrophs — Plural form of auxotroph.
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- avanturine — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
- aventurine — a dark-coloured glass, usually green or brown, spangled with fine particles of gold, copper, or some other metal
- avicularia — Plural form of avicularium.
- aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- awe-struck — filled with awe
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- bacilluria — the presence of bacilli in the urine
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- bahawalpur — an industrial city in Pakistan: cotton, soap. Pop: 563 000 (2005 est)
- bahuvrihis — Plural form of bahuvrihi.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- bantu beer — a malted drink made from partly fermented and germinated millet
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- barbarious — (dated, before 20th century, now literary) barbarous, barbaric.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- barbituric — of or derived from barbituric acid
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).