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14-letter words containing c, l, o, t, u, r

  • postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
  • quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
  • rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
  • scalar product — inner product (def 1).
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • slate-coloured — like slate in colour
  • slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
  • speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
  • startle colour — a bright region of an animal's coloration, normally hidden from view and often part of a design resembling birds' eyes, etc, exposed when the animal is disturbed by a predator
  • stercoricolous — (of an organism) living in dung
  • sterculiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sterculiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of plants that includes cacao and cola
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • sunburst clock — a clock with the pattern or design of a sun
  • tcl consortium — (body)   A non-profit agency dedicated to promoting Tcl.
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • tic douloureux — a condition of momentary stabbing pain along the trigeminal nerve
  • toronto euclid — (language)   The standard dialect of Euclid, as compared to Ottawa Euclid.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
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