11-letter words containing ur
- investiture — the act or process of investing.
- invigourate — Alternative spelling of invigorate.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- journalizer — One who records events in a journal.
- journalling — journal
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- judicatures — Plural form of judicature.
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- jure divino — by divine law.
- jure humano — by human law.
- juridically — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
- jury-rigged — Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- jus naturae — law of nature; natural law
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- kauri resin — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- kelly hours — a suggestion for the name of the hours before and after the traditional school day during which child-minding facilities are provided for the children of working parents
- kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- kookaburras — Plural form of kookaburra.
- kulturkampf — the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.
- kulturkreis — formerly, a complex of related cultural traits assumed to diffuse or radiate outward as a unit in concentric waves or circles.
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- l'ouverture — Toussaint L'Ouverture.
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- languourous — Alternative form of languorous.
- last hurrah — a politician's final campaign.
- lauric acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 12 H 24 O 2 , a fatty acid occurring as the glyceride in many vegetable fats, especially coconut oil and laurel oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, detergents, cosmetics, and lauryl alcohol.
- laurustinus — a southern European evergreen shrub, Viburnum tinus, of the honeysuckle family, having large clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- lecturelike — Resembling a lecture or some aspect of one.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- leisureless — Without leisure; perpetually busy or labouring.
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- lens turret — a rotating device on a camera for bringing any of several lenses in front of the shutter.
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- lime sulfur — a mixture of lime and sulfur that has been boiled in water: used in powdered form or in aqueous solution as an insecticide, a fungicide, and a sheep dip.
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- literatures — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
- litterateur — a literary person, especially a writer of literary works.