11-letter words containing u, r, d, y
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dry as dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
- dry-as-dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dusky shark — a blue-gray shark, Carcharinus obscurus, of warm Atlantic and eastern Pacific seas, reaching a length of 12 feet (3.7 meters).
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- dysregulate — (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
- elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
- equity card — a card proving membership of an actors' trade union
- escort duty — a military duty in which one or more servicemen accompany a person, group of people, or vehicle, for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
- export duty — a government tax paid on goods exported from a country
- fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- flusteredly — In a flustered manner.
- fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
- greedy guts — a glutton
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- head injury — wound to the head
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- householdry — (archaic) The management and upkeep of a household.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- hurdy-gurdy — a barrel organ or similar musical instrument played by turning a crank.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- hydrogenous — of or containing hydrogen.
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hydroxonium — (chemistry) The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H3O+; hydronium.
- hydroxyurea — a synthetic compound, CH 4 N 2 O 2 , used in cancer therapy.
- imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
- incredulity — the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe.
- inodorously — in an inodorous manner
- irreducibly — In an irreducible manner, or state.
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- juridically — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- jury-rigged — Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- ludicrously — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- memory dump — (programming, operating system, jargon) (Or "core dump") A file on hard disk (traditionally called "core") containing a copy of the contents of a process's memory, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or signal.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- mrs. grundy — Mrs. a narrow-minded, conventional person who is extremely critical of any breach of propriety.
- murderously — In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.
- near-nudity — the state of not wearing many clothes
- nonauditory — not auditory, not related to hearing or its functions