12-letter words containing rr
- noncorroding — That cannot be corroded.
- noncorrosive — That does not cause corrosion.
- nonirrigated — not irrigated; dry
- nonnarrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- nonrecurrent — not recurrent.
- nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
- not to worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- olallieberry — a blackberry that is a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, cultivated in California and Oregon.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- overrashness — the act of being overrash
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overreactive — tending to react.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overreported — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- overripeness — the state of being too ripe
- pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
- parity error — (storage, communications) An error discovered by the inclusion of a parity bit.
- parrot fever — psittacosis.
- parrot tulip — a variety of the cultivated tulip Tulipa gesnerana, having variously colored, often double flowers with fringed petals.
- peru current — Humboldt current
- petit beurre — a small, usually oblong butter cookie.
- phased array — a radar antenna consisting of an array of dipoles that are excited in or out of phase with each other to control beam direction and radiation pattern without moving the antenna. Compare dipole (def 3).
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- pied a terre — a residence, as an apartment, for part-time or temporary use.
- pied-a-terre — a residence, as an apartment, for part-time or temporary use.
- pre-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- quarrymaster — a person in charge of a quarry
- quo warranto — (formerly, in England) a writ calling upon a person to show by what authority he or she claims an office, franchise, or liberty.
- random error — an error that has a random distribution and can be attributed to chance.
- red mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
- red squirrel — a reddish squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, of North America.
- refuse lorry — a lorry used to collect and dispose of rubbish and waste from homes, etc
- reoccurrence — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- retroserrate — having retrorse teeth or barbs.
- rhinorrhagia — an extreme nosebleed
- rhinorrhoeal — of or relating to rhinorrhoea
- road warrior — a person who travels extensively, as on business trips
- roof terrace — a garden on the roof of a building
- 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.
- sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
- saint-pierre — two small groups of islands off the S coast of Newfoundland: an overseas territory of France; important base for fishing. 3 sq. mi. (240 sq. km). Capital: St. Pierre.
- sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
- serra do mar — a mountain range on the SE coast of Brazil. Highest point, 7420 feet (2262 meters).
- serre-papier — cartonnier.