11-letter words containing t, o, u, r
- rejuvenator — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
- remunerator — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- repetitious — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
- requisitory — a demand, usually in writing, made by a prosecutor that a sentence be passed against an accused party, and stating reasons for the demand
- restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- restitutory — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- resurrector — to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- retrosexual — a heterosexual man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance
- 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.
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rev counter — A rev counter is an instrument in a car or an aeroplane which shows the speed of the engine.
- revaluation — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- reverse out — a font or type that is defined by its background or border, allowing the underlying colour of the paper or the background colour to show the shape of the characters
- 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.
- 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.
- rinthereout — a vagrant or homeless person
- river-mouth — an estuary
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
- 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.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- root around — rummage
- root nodule — a swelling on the root of a leguminous plant, such as the pea or clover, that contains bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, capable of nitrogen fixation
- 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.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
- rotary pump — a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.
- rotogravure — a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
- rotor cloud — a cloud within and around which the air is rotating about a horizontal axis, occurring in the lee of a large mountain barrier.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- rousseauist — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.