15-letter words containing c, a, n, t, u
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- preacquaintance — prior acquaintance with a person or with information, the state of having been preacquainted
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- program counter — (hardware) (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
- pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
- quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
- quarter century — a period of twenty five years
- quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
- quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- quasicontinuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
- quatercentenary — a 400th aniversary or its celebration.
- queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
- quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
- quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.
- re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- savings account — a bank account on which interest is paid, traditionally one for which a bankbook is used to record deposits, withdrawals, and interest payments.
- scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
- scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
- self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
- self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
- semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details