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16-letter words containing a, u, t

  • publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
  • pulmonary artery — an artery conveying venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
  • pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information
  • punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
  • punctuationalism — punctuated equilibrium.
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • purchase request — A purchase request is a document detailing required items, the number required and when they will be required. Once approved it becomes a purchase order.
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • pure watercolour — water-soluble pigment, applied in transparent washes and without the admixture of white pigment in the lighter tones
  • put (out) to sea — to sail away from land
  • put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
  • put a sock in it — be quiet!
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • put in the shade — to appear better than (another); surpass
  • put one's oar in — to interfere or interrupt
  • put out to grass — If you say that someone is being put out to grass, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
  • put pen to paper — If you put pen to paper, you write something.
  • quadricentennial — of, relating to, or marking the completion of a period of four hundred years.
  • quantitativeness — The state or quality of being quantitative.
  • quantum computer — a computer that makes use of the quantum states of electrons or other particles to store and process information as quantum bits.
  • quantum sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
  • quarter sessions — an English court of general criminal jurisdiction for crimes less than homicide, held quarterly.
  • quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
  • quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • quasi-diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
  • quasi-equivalent — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
  • quasi-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • quasi-legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • quasi-scientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • quasi-stationary — a person or thing that is stationary.
  • quatercentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 400 years.
  • queen anne style — a style of English architecture of the early 18th cent., characterized by construction in red brick, forms modified from classical architecture, and simple, elegant, and stately ornamentation
  • question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
  • questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
  • quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
  • quintessentially — of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
  • radium emanation — (formerly) radon.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • raster subsystem — (graphics)   The part of a graphics system concerned with an image after it has been transformed and scaled to screen coordinates. It includes scan conversion and display.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • rattle around in — to live or work in (a house, office, etc.) that is too big for one's needs
  • reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
  • real-time euclid — Real-time language, restriction to time-bounded constructs. ["Real-Time Euclid: A Language for Reliable Real-Time Systems", E. Kligerman et al, IEEE Trans Software Eng SE-12(9):941-1986-09-949].
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
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