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11-letter words containing u, n, a, r, o

  • goof around — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
  • gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
  • gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
  • gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
  • gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
  • graduations — Plural form of graduation.
  • grand juror — a person serving on a grand jury.
  • grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
  • graniferous — bearing grain
  • granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
  • granulation — the act or process of granulating.
  • granuliform — having a granular structure
  • granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
  • granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
  • gratulation — a feeling of joy.
  • groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
  • ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
  • ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
  • ground game — game animals, such as hares or deer, found on the earth's surface: distinguished from game birds
  • ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
  • ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
  • groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
  • groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guardswoman — A female guardsman.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
  • guinea corn — durra.
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • gurgitation — a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • hand around — If you hand around or hand round something such as food, you pass it from one person to another in a group.
  • handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
  • hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hard ground — an etching ground applied to the surface of a plate held over a small flame and spread by a dabber or brayer. Compare soft ground (def 1).
  • harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
  • harpoon gun — a small cannon for shooting harpoons.
  • hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
  • hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
  • holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • honor guard — guard of honor.
  • honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
  • honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
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