11-letter words containing ru
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- encrustment — an outer layer of crust
- enterovirus — Any of a group of RNA viruses (including those causing polio and hepatitis A) that typically occur in the gastrointestinal tract, sometimes spreading to the central nervous system or other parts of the body.
- entrustment — The act of entrusting.
- erubescence — the process of growing red or a condition of redness
- erucic acid — crystalline fatty acid
- eructations — Plural form of eructation.
- eruditeness — Erudition.
- excruciated — Simple past tense and past participle of excruciate.
- false fruit — a fruit, as the apple, strawberry, or pineapple, that contains, in addition to a mature ovary and seeds, a significant amount of other tissue.
- ferruginous — Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- firstfruits — the fruits first gathered in a season
- fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
- foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
- forerunners — Plural form of forerunner.
- forerunning — Present participle of forerun.
- fort rucker — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Alabama, NW of Dothan.
- forum livii — ancient name for
- freerunning — Alternative spelling of free running.
- frontrunner — a person who leads in any competition.
- fructifying — Present participle of fructify.
- fructuation — the process of producing fruit
- frugiferous — Bearing fruit.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- fruit drink — a (non-alcoholic) beverage made from fruit
- fruit juice — nectar obtained from fruit
- fruit knife — a small knife, usually having a distinctive handle and a stainless steel blade with a sharp or serrated edge, used at table for paring and cutting fruit.
- fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- fruit salts — salts of citric acid, used to relieve bloating and neutralize stomach acidity. Also used in cooking.
- fruit stall — a market stall that sells a variety of edible fruits
- fruit sugar — fructose.
- fruitarians — Plural form of fruitarian.
- fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- great runes — Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these. See also runes, smash case, fold case. Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that teletypes would use a monocase font, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years.
- ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.