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13-letter words containing c, e, u

  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • one-two punch — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • open juncture — a transition between successive sounds marked by a break in articulatory continuity, as by a pause or the modification of a preceding or following sound, and often indicating a division between words; presence of juncture (opposed to close juncture). Also called plus juncture. Compare close juncture, juncture (def 7a), terminal juncture.
  • opera comique — comic opera.
  • optical mouse — (hardware)   Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
  • oraculousness — the state of being oraculous
  • ostreiculture — the breeding of oysters
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • out of office — (of a government) out of power
  • out of pocket — small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
  • out-of-pocket — paid out in cash or from one's own financial resources and sometimes reimbursed: My out-of-pocket travel expenses included taking business clients to dinner.
  • outer product — cross product.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • output device — (hardware)   Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • outrecuidance — (archaic) Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
  • over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • overconscious — excessively conscious
  • overconstruct — to construct excessively
  • overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
  • overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • overencourage — to encourage too much
  • overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
  • overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
  • overpronounce — to pronounce (a word, syllable, etc.) in an exaggerated, affected, or excessively careful manner.
  • overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • palaeocurrent — an ancient current, esp of water, evidence of which has been preserved in sedimentary rocks as fossilized ripple marks, etc
  • panleucopenia — a viral disease of cats marked by a deficiency of white blood cells
  • pao de acucar — Portuguese name of Sugarloaf Mountain.
  • papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • parsley sauce — a white sauce containing chopped parsley
  • particularize — to make particular.
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • pastry cutter — a cutter that is used to cut pastry into shapes
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • pay structure — a collection of pay grades or bands, which set out the different levels of pay for workers in a certain profession, etc
  • peace studies — a field of political science which examines how to reduce conflicts
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
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