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11-letter words containing u, n, r, d

  • rejuvenized — to rejuvenate.
  • relief fund — a fund of money set up to provide aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • remunerated — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
  • renumerated — to represent numbers by symbols.
  • repudiation — the act of repudiating.
  • resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
  • return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • road-runner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
  • roll around — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
  • roll-around — equipped with wheels or casters so as to be easily movable from one location to another: a roll-around kitchen counter.
  • 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
  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • 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.
  • rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
  • rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • 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.
  • ruridecanal — relating to a rural dean
  • rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
  • 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.
  • sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
  • sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
  • sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
  • 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.
  • screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • 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
  • sentry duty — the duty of serving as a sentry
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
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