11-letter words containing u, r, g
- corrugating — Present participle of corrugate.
- corrugation — a corrugating or being corrugated
- corrugators — Plural form of corrugator.
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- cough syrup — Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counterdrug — Against the trafficking of drugs.
- counterglow — gegenschein.
- countersign — If you countersign a document, you sign it after someone else has signed it.
- countersing — (ethology, of a bird) To sing in response to the song of another.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cryosurgery — surgery involving the local destruction of tissues by quick freezing for therapeutic benefit
- cult figure — a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- curia regis — (in Norman England) the king's court, which performed all functions of government
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cutty grass — a species of sedge, Cyperus ustulatus, of New Zealand with sharp leaves
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degranulate — (of a cell) lose or release granules of a substance, typically as part of an immune reaction.
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- delustering — a chemical process for reducing the luster of rayon yarns by adding a finely divided pigment to the spinning solution.
- demagoguery — the methods, practices, or rhetoric of a demagogue
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- deregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of deregulate.
- deregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deregulate.
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.
- discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
- discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- disfiguring — Present participle of disfigure.
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.