11-letter words containing ru
- gruellingly — In a gruelling manner.
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- grunting ox — the yak.
- gun-running — Gun-running is the activity of taking or sending guns into a country secretly and illegally.
- guru granth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, believed by them to be the embodiment of the gurus
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- harrumphers — Plural form of harrumpher.
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
- incongruent — not congruent.
- incongruity — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- incorrupted — not corrupted
- incorruptly — Without corruption.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- instructing — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- instruction — machine instruction
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- instructors — Plural form of instructor.
- instruments — Plural form of instrument.
- intercrural — of or relating to the leg or the hind limb.
- interrupted — having an irregular or discontinuous arrangement, as of leaflets along a stem.
- interrupter — a person or thing that interrupts.
- intrusive r — linking r (def 2).
- intrusive-r — the r- sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r- dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as [fah] /fɑ/ (Show IPA) becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as [fahr-uh-wey] /ˈfɑr əˈweɪ/ (Show IPA).
- intrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- jaguarundis — Plural form of jaguarundi.
- jamaica rum — a heavy, pungent, slowly fermented rum made in Jamaica.
- jebel druze — region in S Syria, on the N Jordanian border, inhabited by the Druses: 2,584 sq mi (6,693 sq km)
- kashmir rug — a handmade Oriental rug that is woven flat without pile and covered entirely with embroidered patterns of colored yarns.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- kettledrums — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- knee-sprung — (of a horse, mule, etc.) having a forward bowing of the knee caused by shortening of the flexor tendons.