14-letter words containing c, o, a, n, u, t
- noncontractual — relating to obligations not expressed in a contract
- noncultivation — the state of not cultivating
- nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
- noneducational — not educational or related to education
- nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- nonparticulate — Not particulate.
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- nontranslucent — Not translucent.
- north caucasus — a region in the S Russian Federation in Europe, E of the Black Sea.
- nostro account — a bank account conducted by a British bank with a foreign bank, usually in the foreign currency
- nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
- nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
- occult balance — asymmetrical balance of visual elements in an artistic composition.
- occupancy rate — The occupancy rate at a hotel is the number of available rooms that are occupied over a period of time.
- occupationally — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- opaque context — an expression in which the replacement of a term by another with the same reference may change the truth-value of the whole. John believes that Cicero was a Roman is opaque, since even though Cicero and Tully are the same person John may know that the given statement is true but not that Tully was a Roman
- ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- overaccentuate — to accentuate too much
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
- percutaneously — through the skin
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
- port-au-prince — Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
- pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.