11-letter words containing u, s, r, d
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- cardophagus — a donkey
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
- catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- circumcised — (of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
- circumfused — Simple past tense and past participle of circumfuse.
- close round — to encircle; surround
- closed rule — a rule that prohibits amendments to a bill from the floor.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- coast guard — The coast guard is a part of a country's military forces and is responsible for protecting the coast, carrying out rescues, and doing police work along the coast.
- conductress — a female conductor
- confounders — Plural form of confounder.
- constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- court dress — the formal clothing worn at court
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- 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
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.