11-letter words containing u, d, o
- round angle — perigon.
- round dance — a dance performed by couples and characterized by circular or revolving movement, as the waltz.
- 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-faced — having a face that is round.
- round-robin — a sequence or series.
- 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.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
- rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
- rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- running dog — Disparaging. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey: to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- 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.
- 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
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- 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.
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
- send around — to put into circulation
- sensurround — a sound reproduction system used esp in cinemas, in which low-frequency output causes bodily sensations in the audience, resulting in a feeling of involvement in the film
- sesquioxide — an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen and two of another element, as aluminum oxide, Al 2 O 3 .
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- show around — guide round a new place
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shuddersome — tending to shudder
- shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
- silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
- sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
- slime mould — any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- sodium pump — an energy-consuming mechanism in cell membranes that transports sodium ions across the membrane, in exchange for potassium ions or other substances.
- sodium-free — (of food) containing less than 5 mg of sodium per serving
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- soldatesque — of or relating to a soldier
- solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.