11-letter words containing u, r, s, a
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quack grass — a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.
- quacksalver — a quack doctor.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- 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.
- quadratures — Plural form of quadrature.
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.
- quarrellous — argumentative or given to complaint
- quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
- quarterlies — Plural form of quarterly.
- quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
- quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- quaver rest — a musical rest or silence that lasts for the equivalent of a quaver or eighth note
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- quick grass — the couch grass, Agropyron repens.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- quizmasters — Plural form of quizmaster.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- race-course — racetrack.
- racecourses — Plural form of racecourse.
- radiculitis — inflammation of a spinal nerve root.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- radiosodium — the radioactive isotope of sodium having an atomic mass of 24 and a half-life of 14.9 hours: used as a tracer in biochemistry.
- rambus dram — (storage) (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. Although it cannot be used as a direct replacement for existing memory, it is likely that it will replace DRAM and SDRAM as the main memory system in personal computers as the bus speeds required by these machines increase. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz. The memory is also only 8 or 9 bits wide, so the bandwidth would increase enormously if it were used in parallel to give 32 or 64-bit memory.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- raptureless — without rapture
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- re-situated — to put in or on a particular site or place; locate.
- reassurance — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- reinsurance — the process or business of reinsuring.
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
- restaurants — an establishment where meals are served to customers.
- restimulate — to stimulate again, reactivate
- resultantly — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- resuscitate — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- retrosexual — a heterosexual man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance