15-letter words containing c, a, o, u
- non-educational — pertaining to education.
- non-efficacious — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- non-exculpatory — tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.
- non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- non-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- nonacquiescence — the act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance (usually followed by to or in): acquiescence to his boss's demands.
- 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.
- noncommunicable — not communicable, especially with reference to a disease that is not transmitted through contact with an infected or afflicted person.
- 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
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- 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 fission — fission (def 2).
- nuclear reactor — reactor (def 4).
- nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- 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.
- ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
- octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
- on o's haunches — If you get down on your haunches, you lower yourself towards the ground so that your legs are bent under you and you are balancing on your feet.
- 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.
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
- 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.
- parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
- parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.