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11-letter words containing u, r, o, c

  • reinoculate — to inoculate again
  • reintroduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
  • reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
  • reoccurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • resurrector — to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
  • rev counter — A rev counter is an instrument in a car or an aeroplane which shows the speed of the engine.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • ricinus oil — castor oil.
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rock gunnel — any small eellike blenny of the family Pholididae (Pholidae), especially Pholis gunnellus (rock gunnel) common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic.
  • rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • roots music — reggae, esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized
  • rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
  • rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
  • rotor cloud — a cloud within and around which the air is rotating about a horizontal axis, occurring in the lee of a large mountain barrier.
  • rouen lilac — a shrub, Syringa chinensis, of France, having clusters of fragrant, lilac-purple flowers.
  • rouge croix — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • round dance — a dance performed by couples and characterized by circular or revolving movement, as the waltz.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • roundarched — having semicircular arches
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
  • sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
  • sacré coeur — a basilica in Montmartre, Paris, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • sarcomatous — any of various malignant tumors composed of neoplastic cells resembling embryonic connective tissue.
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
  • 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.
  • sclerocauly — the feature of having a hard, dry stem
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
  • scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
  • scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
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