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

  • octandrious — having eight stamens.
  • octonocular — eight-eyed
  • onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • overcaution — excessive caution
  • paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
  • peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
  • pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
  • preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preoccupant — a previous occupant
  • proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quangocracy — Rule by quangos or similar unelected bodies. (from 20th c.).
  • radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
  • re-announce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • reannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
  • reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
  • reinoculate — to inoculate again
  • reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
  • rouen lilac — a shrub, Syringa chinensis, of France, having clusters of fragrant, lilac-purple flowers.
  • round dance — a dance performed by couples and characterized by circular or revolving movement, as the waltz.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • roundarched — having semicircular arches
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
  • snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
  • transductor — a magnetic device that amplifies electronic signals
  • trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
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