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12-letter words containing roo

  • laundry room — utility room
  • lecture room — conference hall
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • mansard-roof — Also called mansard roof. a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part. Compare French roof.
  • meeting room — venue where discussions are held
  • microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
  • morning room — In some large, old houses, the morning room is a living room which gets the sun in the morning.
  • mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
  • nonclassroom — not located in the traditional classroom
  • oak-root rot — a disease of oaks and other trees and woody plants, caused by the fungus Amillariella mellea (oak-root fungus) the fruiting body of which is the honey mushroom, and characterized by rotting roots, girdling of crown, and eventual death of the tree.
  • orderly room — the administrative office of a small military unit.
  • papoose-root — the blue cohosh. See under cohosh.
  • pilfer-proof — (of a supply, stock, container, etc) protected from or not susceptible to pilfering
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • primary root — the first root produced by a germinating seed, developing from the radicle of the embryo.
  • proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
  • proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
  • proof stress — the load per unit area that a structure can withstand without being permanently deformed by more than a specified amount.
  • proof theory — (logic)   The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • quintana roo — a sparsely populated state in SE Mexico, on the E Yucatán peninsula. 19,435 sq. mi. (50,335 sq. km). Capital: Chetumal.
  • rainbow roof — a gable roof in the form of a broad Gothic arch, with gently sloping convex surfaces.
  • rat kangaroo — any of several rabbit-sized, ratlike Australian kangaroos of the subfamily Potoroinae.
  • rat-kangaroo — any of several rabbit-sized, ratlike Australian kangaroos of the subfamily Potoroinae.
  • reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
  • red kangaroo — a large Australian kangaroo, Macropus rufus, the male of which has a reddish coat
  • roof terrace — a garden on the roof of a building
  • roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
  • roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
  • rooflessness — the state of having no roof
  • room divider — a partition, as a screen or freestanding bookcase, that separates one part of a room from another.
  • room service — the serving of food, drinks, etc., to a guest in his or her room, as at a hotel.
  • rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • rooster tail — the wake thrown up behind a speeding boat or the dust thrown up behind a speeding vehicle.
  • root climber — a plant that clings to a surface and climbs by means of adventitious roots, as the ivy, Hedera helix.
  • root version — The initial value of an object in a change management system.
  • rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
  • rootlessness — having no roots.
  • roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
  • running room — the space between a racer and the nearby competitors in a running race, especially enough to run and maneuver as desired.
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • scotch broom — the broom, Cytisus scoparius.
  • scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
  • sensory root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • shock troops — soldiers trained to attack
  • sitting room — a small living room, often one that forms part of a suite in a hotel, private house, etc.
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