13-letter words containing c, i, r, u, t, o
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
- electrocution — The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
- encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
- enculturation — The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
- floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- form function — (jargon) The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
- formularistic — relating to formularization
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- horticultural — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hortus siccus — a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.