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

  • purse seine — a large net towed, usually by two boats, that encloses a school of fish and is then closed at the bottom by means of a line resembling the string formerly used to draw shut the neck of a money pouch or purse
  • purse-seine — to fish using a purse seine.
  • put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • quadrantids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadran·tid me·teor show·er) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
  • 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.
  • quadrennial — occurring every four years: a quadrennial festival.
  • quadrennium — a period of four years.
  • quadrillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
  • quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
  • quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
  • quaintrelle — (obscure) A woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.
  • quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
  • quarantined — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
  • quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.
  • quarrelling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
  • quart minor — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
  • quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
  • quaveringly — In a quavering manner; tremulously.
  • questionary — a questionnaire.
  • questioners — Plural form of questioner.
  • quinceanera — (among Hispanics in Latin America and the U.S.) a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday, marking her transition from childhood to maturity.
  • quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
  • quinquereme — (history, nautical) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having five banks of oars.
  • quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
  • quint minor — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
  • quinternion — five gathered sheets folded in two for binding together.
  • quiveringly — While quivering, or as if quivering.
  • radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
  • rat-running — the practice of driving through residential side streets to avoid congested main roads
  • re-acquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • recruitment — the act or process of recruiting.
  • recurringly — occurring or appearing again.
  • rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
  • reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
  • refuctoring — (humour, programming)   Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
  • regurgitant — to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.
  • reinduction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
  • reinoculate — to inoculate again
  • reinstitute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
  • reinsurance — the process or business of reinsuring.
  • reintroduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
  • rejuvenized — to rejuvenate.
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • relicensure — the process of being licensed again to practise a particular profession
  • relief fund — a fund of money set up to provide aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
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