11-letter words containing a, c, i, u
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- occultation — Astronomy. the passage of one celestial body in front of another, thus hiding the other from view: applied especially to the moon's coming between an observer and a star or planet.
- occupancies — Plural form of occupancy.
- occupations — Plural form of occupation.
- oceanariums — Plural form of oceanarium.
- octandrious — having eight stamens.
- octuplicate — a group, series, or set of eight identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- oecumenical — general; universal.
- oracularity — Oracular speech or behaviour.
- orbicularis — a muscle surrounding an opening
- orbicularly — In an orbicular fashion.
- otoacoustic — Of or pertaining to sounds generated by the inner ear.
- outclassing — Present participle of outclass.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- packing nut — a nut that serves to condense packing and so to tighten its seal.
- painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- paramaecium — a microscopic unicellular ciliate protozoa
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
- particulars — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- particulate — of, relating to, or composed of distinct particles.
- party music — music for or at a party
- pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
- patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- peculiarize — to make peculiar, unusual, distinguished, etc.
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pediculated — having a stalk or stalks
- pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- pericranium — the outer periosteum of the cranium.
- perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
- pi-calculus — (theory) A process algebra in which channel names can act both as transmission medium and as transmitted data. Its basic atomic actions are individual point to point communications which are nondeterministically selected and globally sequentialised.
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.