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13-letter words containing c, o, f, u

  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
  • think much of — to have a high opinion of
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
  • traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
  • umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unconflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
  • unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
  • unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
  • undiscomfited — not discomfited; at ease
  • unenforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • unofficiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • volcanic tuff — tuff2 .
  • ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
  • watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
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