15-letter words containing a, u, t, c, o
- nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nonagricultural — not applied to or generally practicing agriculture: a nonagricultural nation.
- nonarchitecture — a building not designed according to accepted modes of architecture
- nonbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- nonconceptually — In a nonconceptual manner.
- nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
- nonintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- nonmatriculated — not matriculated, not enrolled in an institution, esp a college or university
- nonoccupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
- north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
- north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- northcountryman — a native or inhabitant of the North of England
- not care a fuck — not to care at all
- nuclear reactor — reactor (def 4).
- obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
- octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
- optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
- out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- over-accentuate — to give emphasis or prominence to.
- over-articulate — excessively articulate
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-particular — 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.
- overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
- overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- pair production — Physics. the simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle by a nucleus or particle in an excited state, as when a photon is absorbed.
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- partial product — the result obtained when a number is multiplied by one digit of a multiplier
- past continuous — past progressive.
- pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- peak production — the maximum production
- pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
- pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- piano reduction — a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.
- pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
- pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae