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14-letter words containing a, u, r, e, o

  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • turn on a dime — change direction quickly
  • ultracompetent — extremely competent
  • ultramicrotome — a microtome capable of producing very fine slices of tissue or cellular specimens for electron microscopic examination.
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • unappreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
  • unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
  • unappropriated — not set apart or voted for some purpose or use, as money, revenues, etc.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • unconcentrated — applied with all one's attention, energy, etc.: their concentrated efforts to win the election.
  • unconfederated — not allied to a confederation or joined in confederacy
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • uncontrollable — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • under contract — If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time.
  • underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
  • underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
  • underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
  • underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
  • ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
  • unicorn chaser — originally a picture of a unicorn posted on a blog site shortly after an offensive or disturbing picture has been posted, as a kind of antidote to the previous post. Now used of a comforting or innocent image, video clip, or topic viewed or contemplated following a previous, disturbing image, video, etc.
  • unidirectional — operating or moving in one direction only; not changing direction: a unidirectional flow.
  • unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.
  • uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
  • unit separator — (character)   (US) ASCII character 31.
  • universal soul — Brahman in its aspect as the sacred syllable Om, the eternal and spiritual principle that permeates the universe
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
  • unrationalized — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
  • unreciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • unrecognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
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