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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-ruinedruins, 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.
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