11-letter words containing rr
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- merrymaking — the act of taking part gaily or enthusiastically in some festive or merry celebration.
- microarrays — Plural form of microarray.
- mirror ball — a large revolving ball covered with small pieces of mirror glass so that it reflects light in changing patterns: used in discos and ballrooms
- mirror carp — a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio, with reduced scales, giving a smooth shiny body surface
- mirror lens — a lens of long focal length in which some of the lens elements are replaced by mirrors in order to shorten its overall length and reduce its weight
- mirror site — (networking) An archive site or website which keeps a copy of some or all files at another site so as to make them more quickly available and to reduce the load on the source site. It is generally best to use the mirror that is physically closest to you as this will usually give the fastest download. Such mirroring is usually done for specific whole directories or files on a specific remote server as opposed to a cache or proxy server which keeps copies of everything that is requested via it. For example, src.doc.ic.ac.uk is the main UK mirror for the GNU archive at gnu.org.
- mirrorscope — (dated) A slide projector.
- miscarriage — the expulsion of a fetus before it is viable, especially between the third and seventh months of pregnancy; spontaneous abortion. Compare abortion (def 1).
- miscarrying — Present participle of miscarry.
- mismarriage — an unsuitable or unhappy marriage.
- morrill act — an act of Congress (1862) granting each state 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land for each member it had in Congress, 90 percent of the gross proceeds of which were to be used for the endowment and maintenance of colleges and universities teaching agricultural and mechanical arts and other subjects.
- most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
- motor lorry — a motor truck, especially one with open sides.
- multibarrel — a gun having more than one barrel
- murrysville — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- mycorrhizae — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- narraganset — Narragansett.
- narrational — something narrated; an account, story, or narrative.
- narratively — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- narrativity — The quality or condition of presenting a narrative.
- narratology — The study of narrative structure.
- narrow boat — A narrow boat is a long, low boat used on canals.
- narrow down — refine, limit
- narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
- narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
- naseberries — Plural form of naseberry.
- niederrhein — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
- non-arrival — an act of arriving; a coming: His arrival was delayed by traffic.
- non-corrupt — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- non-current — passing in time; belonging to the time actually passing: the current month.
- nonarrivals — Plural form of nonarrival.
- nonirritant — A substance that is not an irritant.
- occurrences — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- oil derrick — derrick (def 2).
- overarrange — to arrange to an excessive or unsuitable level
- overcorrect — To correct too sharply or too much.
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overreacher — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overreacted — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overrespond — to respond too dramatically
- parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- pierre loti — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) 1850–1923, French novelist.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pilot error — (jargon) (Sun, from aviation) A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently bug-like results. E.g. "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His "sendmail.cf" is hosed." Compare UBD.
- pine barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- pine-barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- poll parrot — polly.