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11-letter words containing u, r, g, e, o

  • prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
  • reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • 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.
  • religiously — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • reoccurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
  • retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
  • righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
  • river rouge — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
  • roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
  • rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
  • rotogravure — a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
  • rouge croix — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
  • rough edges — lack of refinement
  • rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • rough-house — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
  • round angle — perigon.
  • rugosa rose — a shrub, Rosa rugosa, having densely bristled stems, wrinkled leaves, and fragrant red or white flowers.
  • rummage out — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
  • rumormonger — a person given to spreading rumors, often maliciously.
  • sage grouse — a large grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, of the sagebrush regions of western North America, having plumage of gray, buff, and black.
  • 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.
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
  • see through — Also, see-thru [see-throo] /ˈsiˌθru/ (Show IPA). transparent: a see-through blouse.
  • see-through — Also, see-thru [see-throo] /ˈsiˌθru/ (Show IPA). transparent: a see-through blouse.
  • serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
  • sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
  • slough over — to gloss over; minimize
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
  • sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
  • sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • squarsonage — the residence of a squarson
  • stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
  • stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
  • sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
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