12-letter words containing roun
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- order around — be bossy towards
- out of round — not having perfect roundness
- out-of-round — not perfectly round.
- ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
- rally around — to bring into order again; gather and organize or inspire anew: The general rallied his scattered army.
- round barrow — a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.
- round window — a membrane-covered opening in the inner wall of the middle ear that compensates for changes in cochlear pressure.
- round-lotter — a buyer or seller of round lots.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- scout around — search
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- surroundings — something that surrounds.
- throw around — ideas, etc.: exchange, brainstorm
- touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
- ungroundedly — without basis
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- year-rounder — a person who is a year-round resident, as at a seasonal resort.