12-letter words containing rr
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- irrespirable — not respirable; unfit for breathing.
- irresponsive — not responsive; not responding, or not responding readily, as in speech, action, or feeling.
- irreverently — not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence; deficient in veneration or respect: an irreverent reply.
- irreversible — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- irreversibly — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- irrigational — Of or pertaining to irrigation.
- irritability — the quality or state of being irritable.
- irritainment — Entertainment that annoys, embarrasses, or upsets more than or as much as it entertains, whether unintentionally or by design.
- irritatingly — causing irritation; annoying; provoking: irritating questions.
- irritational — Relating to irritation.
- irrotational — not having rotation.
- ishtar terra — a plateau region in the northern hemisphere of Venus.
- java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
- jeep carrier — an antisubmarine escort carrier.
- jerry-rigged — jury-rig.
- jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
- lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- mail carrier — a person, usually employed by the post office, who delivers mail.
- marram grass — a grass, Ammophila arenaria, having matted, creeping rhizomes, grown on sandy shores of Europe, North America, and Australia to bind the sand.
- marriage bed — the bed in which a married couple sleep together
- marriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
- married life — living as sb's spouse
- married name — woman's surname after marriage
- merrillville — a town in NE Indiana.
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
- merrythought — the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
- metrorrhagia — nonmenstrual discharge of blood from the uterus; uterine hemorrhage.
- microcarrier — (biology) Small, beadlike material used to immobilize biocatalysts, or to anchor growing cells.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- mirror canon — a canon in which the parts are written as though seen in a mirror placed between them: one part or set of parts is the upside-down image of the other
- mirror image — an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- miscarriages — Plural form of miscarriage.
- morris chair — a large armchair having an adjustable back and loose, removable cushions.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- morro castle — a historic fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
- mouse arrest — (jargon) Getting busted for violating an on-line service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."
- murrumbidgee — a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
- narragansett — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
- narrow gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- night terror — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- non-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.