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11-letter words containing t, o, u, g, r

  • out-migrant — a person who out-migrates.
  • out-migrate — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
  • outcropping — Geology. a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth. the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
  • outcrossing — Present participle of outcross.
  • outdrinking — Present participle of outdrink.
  • outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
  • outintrigue — to surpass in intrigue
  • outorganize — to overcome by organization
  • outpourings — Plural form of outpouring.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • outsmarting — Present participle of outsmart.
  • outsourcing — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
  • over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
  • overcutting — excessive cutting
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
  • passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
  • pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
  • point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
  • point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
  • posturizing — to posture; pose.
  • prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • progeniture — procreation
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
  • protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
  • purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
  • purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
  • put through — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
  • refuctoring — (humour, programming)   Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
  • retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
  • 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.
  • rotogravure — a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
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